FreeNAS 11.2 - configuration directory outside of plex jail

[roandr]

I’m a freenas noob. Been bottle fed windows…

For the last year and a half I’ve been on Corral but I decided to go back to a boot environment with FreeNAS 9.10.x and switch train to 11.2.

So, at the moment I’m running FreeNAS 11.2-BETA3 with a fresh install of the Plex Media Server (PlexPass) plugin (1.13.5.5291).

My Plex Media Server install on Corral used a dataset called “Plexmetadata” to store configuration data (cache, logs, metadata, etc).

So, I need to get the new Plex Media Server install to use the plexmetadata dataset. How do I go about doing that? I don’t want to copy or move files from my tank > plexmetadata dataset to the iocage > jail > plex dataset. I have a tendency of botching plugin/jail installs after playing around with em…

Note: Don’t know if it matters but the files in my plexmetadata dataset are from a Plex Media Server installation that did not use PlexPass. I don’t remember what version of Plex i was using but I know I installed it in march 2017.

A screenshot of the plexmetadata dataset file structure:

A screenshot of my pool and datasets:

Regards
Ronny

[roandr]

Played around with it some and I think I’ve solved it.

Here is what I’ve done so far:

Using shell from webinterface I accessed the plex jail:

iocage console plex

Note: important that plex is not running or it will recreate the folders/files. For some reason when I stop the plex media server from the webinterface the jail is also stopped. Using the command above to access the jail starts the jail AND plex. I basically had to stop the service from within the jail shell.

service plexmediaserver_plexpass stop

Trashed everything in /mnt/iocage/jails/plex/root/usr/local/plexdata-plexpass/Plex Media Server/

Then I used the webinterface to mount PlexMetadata dataset to the plex jail:

Source: /mnt/tank/PlexMetadata/Library/Application\Support/Plex\ Media\ Server/
Destination: /mnt/iocage/jails/plex/root/usr/local/plexdata-plexpass/Plex\ Media\ Server/

Plex did not start after this and I assumed it had something to do with permissions.

root@freenas:~ # ls -la /mnt/tank/PlexMetadata/Library/Application\ Support/Plex\ Media\ Server/
total 27
drwxrwxr-x+ 13 1000   1000     14 Oct 18 10:17 .
drwxrwxr-x+  3 media  media     3 Mar 27  2017 ..
drwxrwxr-x+  6 1000   1000     16 Oct 18 10:17 Cache
drwxrwxr-x+  3 1000   1000      4 Oct 18 09:47 Codecs
drwxrwxr-x+  3 1000   1000      3 Mar 27  2017 Crash Reports
drwxrwxr-x+  4 1000   1000      4 May 31  2014 Library
drwxrwxr-x+  3 1000   1000     66 Oct 18 10:16 Logs
drwxrwxr-x+  8 1000   1000      8 May 31  2014 Media
drwxrwxr-x+  4 1000   1000      4 Jun  1  2014 Metadata
drwxrwxr-x+  7 1000   1000      7 May 31  2014 Plug-in Support
drwxrwxr-x+  7 1000   1000      7 Oct 10 02:48 Plug-ins
-rwxrwxr-x+  1 1000   1000   1588 Oct 18 10:17 Preferences.xml
drwxrwxr-x+  2 1000   1000      2 May 31  2014 Scanners
drwxrwxr-x+  3 1000   1000      3 Aug 16  2015 Thumbnails

root@freenas:~ # cat /etc/passwd
root:*:0:0:root:/root:/bin/csh
daemon:*:1:1:Owner of many system processes:/root:/usr/sbin/nologin
operator:*:2:5:System &:/:/usr/sbin/nologin
bin:*:3:7:Binaries Commands and Source:/:/usr/sbin/nologin
tty:*:4:65533:Tty Sandbox:/:/usr/sbin/nologin
kmem:*:5:2:KMem Sandbox:/:/usr/sbin/nologin
games:*:7:13:Games pseudo-user:/:/usr/sbin/nologin
news:*:8:8:News Subsystem:/:/usr/sbin/nologin
man:*:9:9:Mister Man Pages:/usr/share/man:/usr/sbin/nologin
sshd:*:22:22:Secure Shell Daemon:/var/empty:/usr/sbin/nologin
smmsp:*:25:25:Sendmail Submission User:/var/spool/clientmqueue:/usr/sbin/nologin
mailnull:*:26:26:Sendmail Default User:/var/spool/mqueue:/usr/sbin/nologin
bind:*:53:53:Bind Sandbox:/:/usr/sbin/nologin
proxy:*:62:62:Packet Filter pseudo-user:/nonexistent:/usr/sbin/nologin
_pflogd:*:64:64:pflogd privsep user:/var/empty:/usr/sbin/nologin
_dhcp:*:65:65:dhcp programs:/var/empty:/usr/sbin/nologin
uucp:*:66:66:UUCP pseudo-user:/var/spool/uucppublic:/usr/local/libexec/uucp/uucico
pop:*:68:6:Post Office Owner:/nonexistent:/usr/sbin/nologin
www:*:80:80:World Wide Web Owner:/nonexistent:/usr/sbin/nologin
nobody:*:65534:65534:Unprivileged user:/nonexistent:/usr/sbin/nologin
avahi:*:200:200:avahi user:/nonexistent:/usr/sbin/nologin
messagebus:*:201:201:messagebus user:/nonexistent:/usr/sbin/nologin
ftp:*:14:14::/nonexistent:/bin/csh
auditdistd:*:78:77:Auditdistd unprivileged user:/var/empty:/usr/sbin/nologin
hast:*:845:845:HAST unprivileged user:/var/empty:/usr/sbin/nologin
ladvd:*:79:78:ladvd user:/var/empty:/usr/sbin/nologin
webdav:*:666:666:WebDAV Anonymous User:/var/empty:/usr/sbin/nologin
media:*:1001:816:media:/mnt/tank:/bin/csh
plex:*:972:972:plex:/nonexistent:/bin/csh
consul:*:469:469:Consul Daemon:/var/tmp/consul:/usr/sbin/nologin
nomad:*:472:472:Nomad Daemon:/var/tmp/nomad:/usr/sbin/nologin
minio:*:473:473:Minio Daemon:/var/tmp/minio:/usr/sbin/nologin
netdata:*:302:302:NetData Daemon:/var/cache/netdata:/usr/sbin/nologin
nslcd:*:389:389:Nslcd Daemon:/var/tmp/nslcd:/usr/sbin/nologin

So, since there are no UID/GID 1000 and since public don’t have write I’m thinking this makes sense. But then again, permissions confuse me. Nevertheless:

chown -R 972:972 /mnt/tank/PlexMetadata/Library/Application\ Support/Plex\ Media\ Server/

Plex starts and I’m able to access the web interface. It’s now using the PlexMetadata dataset.

Now I just need to mount my libraries.

I’m thinking I’ll probably run into some kind of permission based problem down the road… I always do.

Still, Yay!

[jonus3000]

Thank you just what i needed to know to get my migration working

[sremick]

Hmm, I’ve been using rsync to send the config directory from the old jail to the new jail when upgrading the jail. I sort of like this method though, but now that you can upgrade the base OS in jails on FreeNAS 11.2 I’m not sure it’s something I’ll ever need to do again.