Moving Installation - group systemd.journal

Plex Media Server
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Version 1.40.1.8227

Ubuntu - 23.10

I’m trying to set up a new server and move everything to a low powered N100 system. As far as I know, I followed the steps in Chuck’s guide. But when I plug in my USB box-o-disks, everything is showing up and group systemd-journal, and I cannot change it.

Thanks for any suggestions.

2nd question (related) – can anyone tell me why this command doesn’t work?

find /plexmedialibrary -type d -exec chmod 755 {} ;; find /plexmedialibrary -type f -exec chmod 644 {} ;

It’s from the Plex permissions guide. It gives me an error that I did not right down about -exec. But when I use what seems to be the exact same command from other websites, it works fine.

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make sure you escape it correctly and easiest to do as two commands

find /dir-name  -type d -exec chmod 755 \; 
find /dir-name  -type f -exec chmod 644 \;

Lastly

After creating the mount point

  1. sudo chmod 755 /mount-point-dir
  2. mount it
  3. sudo chmod 755 /mount-point-dir

(the moint point and the entry into the file system)

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Well, I’m not sure what I did differently, but it’s working now. Thanks for your help. If you can edit, I did need to add {} as the end of your commands.

Followup question - what did I gain by copying over the files from the old server? I still had to set up my libraries. I have to re-setup the DVR.

Followup to that - Is there a way to copy my scheduled events over? I can do it manually for the ones showing up this week in the DVR schedule, but for something that might not play again until August, do I just have to go back to being vigilant and checking the guide regularly?

Thanks,
Mike

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  1. Sorry about forgetting {}.

  2. DVR is interwoven with the normal streaming tables in the DB. I don’t know which ones are important. I do know, if you transport the whole DB then you’ll be fine.

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I figured you left them out on purpose so I could feel smart for once. Things are sort of working now. But my drives keep disappearing. I can mount them manually, but a couple minutes later, they’re gone again. I’m guessing that’s nothing to do with Plex, but if you’ve got a suggestion, I’d listen.
Drives are in a Yottamaster powered usb box and have been working fine for over a year on another system. Computer is a N100 Beelink S12. I’ve disabled suspend and hibernate. I set the USB drives to HDD in BIOS…

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If the USB box is disappearing –

They love to think they’re smart and be “Power saving”.

I would run that down first to make sure the enclosure does not put the drives to sleep (PMS hates drives disappearing)

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FYI - Beelink sent a new BIOS update that seems to have fixed my problems.

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