# DBRepair development **URL:** \ **Category:** Apps & Creations\ **Created:** [December 14, 2022, 3:57am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/dbrepair-development/822684 "2022-12-14T03:57:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![anon5074910](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/db5fbb/32.png) [@anon5074910](https://forums.plex.tv/u/anon5074910)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2022, 9:33pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/dbrepair-development/822684/63 "2022-12-16T21:33:50Z")
> [@ChuckPa](#): > > I run this monthly because I add about 50 new episodes a month. Thanks, sounds like my estimate of every few months was about right. Guess it really depends on the amount of content added so thanks for confirming that, > [@ChuckPa](#): > > There was a suggestion to change the menu order. I did see that suggestion from TeknoJunky. Makes sense especially if going forward this would become a somewhat semi regular maintenance tasks for server admins. > [@ChuckPa](#): > > I’ll start changing “Repair” to “Repair/Rebuild” because this is more of a Rebuild than fixing data in the actual records (which PMS does) That certainly makes a lot of sense. BTW… wonder if its worth adding the version info (v0.6.1) to the top of the script to match the release in git ? Within here … ```auto ######################################################################### # Plex Media Server database check and repair utility script. # # Maintainer: ChuckPa # ######################################################################### ``` That way when we have a local copy of the script we can quickly know if there is a later version. Just a suggestion … ---
**Author:** ![ChuckPa](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/chuckpa/32/79710_2.png) [@ChuckPa](https://forums.plex.tv/u/ChuckPa)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2022, 10:11pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/dbrepair-development/822684/64 "2022-12-16T22:11:01Z")
> [@anon5074910](#): > > That way when we have a local copy of the script we can quickly know if there is a later version. Just a suggestion … I’ll include that in the next release ---
**Author:** ![Sittingmongoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Sittingmongoose](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Sittingmongoose)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2023, 8:24pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/dbrepair-development/822684/65 "2023-01-03T20:24:53Z")
@ChuckPa Hey, so I was working with you a few weeks ago to get this script working in unraid with Binhex plex. I used [THIS](https://github.com/bullmoose20/Plex-Stuff#pumpanddump) script in the past. It’s a collection of scripts to do various things if you use the binhex template. Do you mind taking a peek at it and telling me if it does what your script does? ---
**Author:** ![ChuckPa](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/chuckpa/32/79710_2.png) [@ChuckPa](https://forums.plex.tv/u/ChuckPa)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2023, 8:36pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/dbrepair-development/822684/66 "2023-01-03T20:36:54Z")
If you go look, 1. cgroups v2 has been added 2. binhex has been added From what i see on that page you linked, that looks more like a PMS-function tool. I work at the database only (SQLite level). I don’t do anything with the internal contents. ---
**Author:** ![Sittingmongoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Sittingmongoose](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Sittingmongoose)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2023, 11:12pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/dbrepair-development/822684/67 "2023-01-03T23:12:26Z")
Oh good news! Is it all baked into the master release? [GitHub - ChuckPa/PlexDBRepair: Database repair utility for Plex Media Server databases](https://github.com/ChuckPa/PlexDBRepair) Do you place tar in the hidden docker folder? Or the appdata folder? (I’m on Unraid, if that matters which doesnt expose the docker folder, just the appdata folder. ---
**Author:** ![ChuckPa](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/chuckpa/32/79710_2.png) [@ChuckPa](https://forums.plex.tv/u/ChuckPa)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2023, 11:39pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/dbrepair-development/822684/68 "2023-01-03T23:39:02Z")
@Sittingmongoose You place the tarball in whichever directory `/config` points to . This way, when you open the container, ```auto cd /config tar xf PlexDBRepair-xxxxxxx.tar.gz ... etc... ``` ---
**Author:** ![Sittingmongoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Sittingmongoose](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Sittingmongoose)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2023, 9:03pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/dbrepair-development/822684/69 "2023-01-04T21:03:47Z")
Forgive my ignorance, I am having a hard time actually getting to the /config folder of my Hotio plex image on Unraid. I got this far. ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/4X/f/3/b/f3b1d87980177ad7379bd15de723538c21f408e0.png) But I haven’t been able to access that folder to actually put the Tar file in it. ---
**Author:** ![ChuckPa](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/chuckpa/32/79710_2.png) [@ChuckPa](https://forums.plex.tv/u/ChuckPa)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2023, 9:18pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/dbrepair-development/822684/70 "2023-01-04T21:18:38Z")
If you can’t put it in your /config, try putting it at the top of one of your media directories Once you get into the container, you can move it to wherever you want. When I create containers, I specify where I want `/config` stored in the file system. Docker can create its screwy UUIDs but I want easy access to `/config` which is also persistent between container instances. ---
**Author:** ![Sittingmongoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Sittingmongoose](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Sittingmongoose)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2023, 9:58pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/dbrepair-development/822684/71 "2023-01-04T21:58:52Z")
My /config is set to /mnt/cache/appdata/plex/ However I think this is different from the config folder you’re looking for. ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/4X/e/b/2/eb2807a7311ca96a20c97f709387938e8930c3ab.png) ---
**Author:** ![ChuckPa](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/chuckpa/32/79710_2.png) [@ChuckPa](https://forums.plex.tv/u/ChuckPa)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2023, 10:12pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/dbrepair-development/822684/72 "2023-01-04T22:12:10Z")
Stop. 🙂 you missed a few steps. 1. Copy the file to where /config is in your file system ✅ 2. Enter the container (docker exec -it plex bash) - ☹ 3. Stop Plex - ☹ 4. `cd /config`✅ 5. `./DBRepair.sh`✅ The tool only runs in the namespace of where PMS runs. - If PMS is native to the host, run the tool on the host (inside the host OS) - If PMS is installed in a container, run the tool inside the same container. ---
**Author:** ![Sittingmongoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Sittingmongoose](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Sittingmongoose)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2023, 12:10am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/dbrepair-development/822684/73 "2023-01-05T00:10:45Z")
I am getting close!! The only thing I cant figure out is how to kill plex. My normal methods kill the bash into the docker. And the command on your git is producing weird results. ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/4X/8/9/0/890605f5f593d6d4b1fca3269ab3a1bd1701ee6e.png) ---
**Author:** ![ChuckPa](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/chuckpa/32/79710_2.png) [@ChuckPa](https://forums.plex.tv/u/ChuckPa)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2023, 1:07am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/dbrepair-development/822684/74 "2023-01-05T01:07:03Z")
Check your quotes there. When you see `>` , you have a dangling quote you can also `kill -15 $(pidof Plex\ Media\ Server)` -or- ```auto ps -ef | grep -i plex ``` find Plex Media Server ```auto kill -15 PID ``` ---
**Author:** ![Sittingmongoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Sittingmongoose](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Sittingmongoose)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2023, 3:47am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/dbrepair-development/822684/75 "2023-01-05T03:47:28Z")
So it seems like it kills it for a few seconds and then it comes right back. ![Screenshot 2023-01-04 at 10.45.46 PM](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/4X/2/8/7/287bbb6f0ab625931f2a5f37e6cda0a43706d5df.jpeg) Using kill -15 $(pidof Plex\ Media\ Server), resulted in \> again. ---
**Author:** ![ChuckPa](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/chuckpa/32/79710_2.png) [@ChuckPa](https://forums.plex.tv/u/ChuckPa)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2023, 5:18am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/dbrepair-development/822684/76 "2023-01-05T05:18:09Z")
@Sittingmongoose See the `s6-supervise` ? You’ll have to shut down the service. As I show in the README on Github ```auto To launch in a Docker container: sudo docker exec -it plex /bin/bash # Stop Plex when using official Plex,inc image /plex_service.sh -d --or-- # Stop Plex when using Linuxserver.io Plex image s6-svc -d /var/run/service/svc-plex --or-- # Stop Plex in binhex containers kill -15 $(pidof 'Plex Media Server') tar xf PlexDBRepair-0.6.1.tar.gz cd PlexDBRepair-0.6.1 chmod +x DBRepair.sh ./DBRepair.sh ``` Looks like you need to use `s6-svc` ---
**Author:** ![Sittingmongoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Sittingmongoose](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Sittingmongoose)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2023, 5:26am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/dbrepair-development/822684/77 "2023-01-05T05:26:11Z")
Killing the s6 process did the same. Came right back. ![Screenshot 2023-01-05 at 12.23.25 AM](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/4X/4/b/a/4ba7e2afebf916be435412c5d2776b5a1694b949.jpeg) Again I’m sorry for my lack of capability here. ---
**Author:** ![ChuckPa](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/chuckpa/32/79710_2.png) [@ChuckPa](https://forums.plex.tv/u/ChuckPa)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2023, 3:43pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/dbrepair-development/822684/78 "2023-01-05T15:43:01Z")
@Sittingmongoose whose image are you attempting to use ? what does `ls -la / /var/run/service` return? ---
**Author:** ![Sittingmongoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Sittingmongoose](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Sittingmongoose)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2023, 3:58pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/dbrepair-development/822684/79 "2023-01-05T15:58:05Z")
Hotio on UnRAID Here you go. ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/4X/2/9/8/29840654d1cd6333eb13e86c459f858bfe29b607.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![ChuckPa](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/chuckpa/32/79710_2.png) [@ChuckPa](https://forums.plex.tv/u/ChuckPa)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2023, 4:42pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/dbrepair-development/822684/80 "2023-01-05T16:42:56Z")
1. I am completely unable to get unraid to boot in an ESXi VM (their trial) 2. I cannot help with that image without finding the Plex control 3. You need to ask them how to do it. Maybe, from inside the container ```auto find / -name \*plex\* ``` If you find a start script, it’ll give clues how to stop it. ---
**Author:** ![Sittingmongoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Sittingmongoose](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Sittingmongoose)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2023, 7:19pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/dbrepair-development/822684/81 "2023-01-05T19:19:53Z")
> [@ChuckPa](#): > > If you go look, > > 1. cgroups v2 has been added > 2. binhex has been added > > From what i see on that page you linked, that looks more like a PMS-function tool. > > I work at the database only (SQLite level). > I don’t do anything with the internal contents. So I have a friend helping me, got the service to die, but realized I wrote Binhex to you and not Hotio. I am using Hotio which has a very different folder structure. ---
**Author:** ![ChuckPa](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/chuckpa/32/79710_2.png) [@ChuckPa](https://forums.plex.tv/u/ChuckPa)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2023, 7:45pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/dbrepair-development/822684/82 "2023-01-05T19:45:00Z")
Extending the tool to support Hotio isn’t difficult if the folder structure is known. If you’ll share with me what you find, I’ll add it [Previous page](https://forums.plex.tv/t/dbrepair-development/822684.md?page=3) [Next page](https://forums.plex.tv/t/dbrepair-development/822684.md?page=5)