Hello,
Setup
I have the latest Plex Media Server setup in a Ubuntu 14.10 VirtualBox running on Windows 2003 which accesses the media via a rarfs mount to a windows SMB share on the host computer. This is all working great!
Problem
I noticed that every night the library update hammers my hard drives for about an hour. My bandwidth monitor is reading ~90gb/night in these daily library scans. While it’s not the end of the world, it’s a lot of strain on the drives when the media does not get updated too often, and when it does it’s only a few minor changes at a time.
Question
I’m hoping there is a way to:
- Disable to daily automagic library scan that finds everything new/moved since the last scan (or reduce it to running once a month).
- Be able to manually run a binary (or api call, etc) for Plex Media Server to tell it which folders it should check explicitly / recursively.
Example
TV Library Setup
A -> /mnt/network/new
B -> /mnt/network/old/<name>/<season>/<episode>
Force Scan (via binary, script, curl to localhost, etc)
All of A -> /mnt/network/new
Partial B -> /mnt/network/old/ABC/1/*
Partial B -> /mnt/network/old/DEF/2/*
Intended Result
Instead of scanning /mnt/network/new/* and /mnt/network/old/*/*/* containing hundreds of unchanged folders, we’d only scan 3 specific folders and their sub folders.
Hopefully this makes sense,
Thanks for the help!
Great job on Plex overall, it’s incredible how great of a platform you guys have built!
