can someone help me? I am also new to Ubuntu and VPS and was able to setup plex and rclone and mount it. Everything works fine but I have the problem that I almost gets a daily ban by google when accessing movies because of rclone. I also try already ocamlfuse but when I mount google with ocamlfuse it is extremely slow and not useable … any suggestion what to try?
Ocamlfuse is going to be better for avoiding bans but does take a bit more configuration. Rclone is a lot easier to setup but notorious for bans (especially during the initial scan of your library). One thing we need to know, though, is the specs on your VPS. Many of those “$3.99/month” ones are good for copying between cloud A and cloud B but not much else. How much memory and CPU (vCPUs or cores) does it have? How about disk space (doesn’t need a lot but you can use it for caching in Rclone or Ocamlfuse)?
@kelinger said:
Ocamlfuse is going to be better for avoiding bans but does take a bit more configuration. Rclone is a lot easier to setup but notorious for bans (especially during the initial scan of your library). One thing we need to know, though, is the specs on your VPS. Many of those “$3.99/month” ones are good for copying between cloud A and cloud B but not much else. How much memory and CPU (vCPUs or cores) does it have? How about disk space (doesn’t need a lot but you can use it for caching in Rclone or Ocamlfuse)?
Thank you very much for your feedback. I would say that I have a quite good VPS with following specs: Hetzner vServer CX40, 2 vCores, 8GB Ram, 200 GB SSD. Would be great, if you could help me to configure Ocamlfuse - I installed it already but it is really slow - especially the PLEX library scan and metadata download is slow… Rclone is working fine but I had already a couple of bans and that sucks ;(
THX for your support
Thank You for the excellent Tutorial. Now my VPS runs without any problems.
I was about to respond with my settings and discussion but I’m running late to work right now so will do so later today. However, have you seen this thread? If you have GDfuse already working (just poorly) then see some of their sample configurations.
@per_PLEX_ed said:
I had so much fun building my own Plex server that I wrote a 6 part tutorial for those who like to dabble into Linux themselves. I’d like to hear feedback from you guys first though, especially the ones who are seasoned in Linux (I’m a total rookie myself so please be gentle). Check it out: techperplexed.blogspot.caThere are several of you I would like to thank. First, @pjburnhill who got the ball rolling when he wrote his very easy to understand tutorial on moving content between cloud services using a VPS. If it wasn’t for him, I would never have dared to dabble into Linux, but he made it all so easy.
Second, @kelinger who not only provided several of the scripts I’m using in my tutorial, but also patiently helped me get set up with my own Plex VPS. I can’t thank him enough!
Third, the Plex employees and all the awesome forum participants who are always ready to answer any questions I may have.
Hope my tutorial will be able to help some others who may find Linux as daunting as I do!
Any chance of a tutorial with encrypted data? 
Heh, no promises… But never say never either 
I have no idea how to set up an encrypted drive and personally I have no need for it. I am still interested in switching to Plex Cloud some day which necessitates unencrypted content. Also I just don’t think the cloud providers care what I store on there as long as I don’t share.
I’ll keep the request in mind though 
@kelinger said:
I was about to respond with my settings and discussion but I’m running late to work right now so will do so later today. However, have you seen this thread? If you have GDfuse already working (just poorly) then see some of their sample configurations.
would be great if you could help me to find the correct settings for my VSP. I also have the issue that ocamlfuse crashes sometimes …
encryption are with rclone no problem…
Hi, I’m running on a VPS with metered bandwith too and I would like to know how have you handled the Deep Analysis of the files.
Please take a look at this: https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/269330/performing-deep-analysis-in-other-computer#latest
Thanks!
anyone having slow speeds with google drive or ACD? its been really bad to ssdnodes lately
Using your guide though coming across a weird issue where it won’t mount the drive.
On my drive, it goes from Media > Plex Media Server, but regardless of what I do, it always comes up with “No such file or directory”, even when I just use Google:/Media /mnt/Google. Also tried making a Plex folder in the root of the drive itself, but still gives that error.
Checked through it numerous times, ran through the rclone config several times, not seeing anything that I missed yet it just doesn’t want to work.
With rclone the syntax is not Google:/Media but Google:Media/ and this is the reason why you get no such file or directory.
People are awesome they just want a guide step by step and they dont want to learn anything.
RTFM man I dont add anything else.
@kelinger said:
Ocamlfuse is going to be better for avoiding bans but does take a bit more configuration. Rclone is a lot easier to setup but notorious for bans (especially during the initial scan of your library). One thing we need to know, though, is the specs on your VPS. Many of those “$3.99/month” ones are good for copying between cloud A and cloud B but not much else. How much memory and CPU (vCPUs or cores) does it have? How about disk space (doesn’t need a lot but you can use it for caching in Rclone or Ocamlfuse)?
I have Plex Cloud and it works bad. I was using PMS with rclone and I was having the problem of the bans but not anymore since google raised my API quota finally. I am switching back to PMS on my hosted server in OVH and I dont have anymore the problem of the bans. PMS + rclone + OVH + Google Drive works perfectly guys.
Same message with that.
Going to do a rebuild, will I need to request FUSE to be added again?
(using SSD Nodes)
Still just says “No such file or directory”.
I even have a “Plex” folder again in the root of the Google Drive, everything is authenticated, went through all the other steps without issue… but this part simply does not want to work.
Post your exact command and the full error message.
Here’s an image:
@xSean said:
Here’s an image:
http://i.imgur.com/tmk3m3B.png
FFS read the replies. @francesco2013 nailed your problem earlier in the thread. With rclone the syntax is not Google:/Media but Google:Media/ and this is the reason why you get no such file or directory.
@nigelpb said:
@xSean said:
Here’s an image:
http://i.imgur.com/tmk3m3B.png
FFS read the replies. @francesco2013 nailed your problem earlier in the thread. With rclone the syntax is not Google:/Media but Google:Media/ and this is the reason why you get no such file or directory.
Considering I did that, too, and it gave the same error…
@xSean said:
Same message with that.
