Plex Database Corruption unRaid Server

Plex Media Server NAS & Devices
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I’m running Version 1.32.4.7195 Plex server on unRaid. I recently moved large number of movies from my windows machine to to the unraid server. Since then, the last 2 database backups came back as corrupted. Not sure how about resolving this issue.

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Unraid is known to cause database corruption. See GitHub - ChuckPa/PlexDBRepair: Database repair utility for Plex Media Server databases for a way to try to fix the database.

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Yeah, i use this tool too :slight_smile:

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oh god! How the heck I pull this into unraid? Like I said still new at this unraid thing. Thanks

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Can you get command line access?

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Are you talking ssh or terminal? Yes on both

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You should then be able to use wget and download the zip, extract it, stop plex and run the repair commands

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I might need a little more guidance. I have it download.

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not sure that worked like it was supposed to:

mkdir plexrepair
cd plexrepair
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ChuckPa/PlexDBRepair/master/DBRepair.sh
chmod +x DBRepair.sh
./DBRepair.sh

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So far so good. I’m getting this Are you trying to run the tool from outside the container environment ?

Can this folder be anywhere, or just in the plex-media-server folder

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Anywhere, it creates logs/backups and its useful to keep it all in one place, which is why I created the folder which is not required.

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I appreciate the help. This is the full error

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Are you using docker containers on unraid?

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Yes, the Plexinc docker, plexinc/pms-docker
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The you need to get SSH/terminal inside the docker container.

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Does the repair file need to be in that docker then?

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Yes it does

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That is the appdata folder correct.
Could it a be grammatical thing. Plexinc vs plexinc?

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@ChuckPa can you lend a hand?

You need to log into the docker container too, not just the unraid host

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This needs to be run from INSIDE the container at the container’s command line.

When you’re outside, the script has no idea where to look for things.

Please reference: GitHub - ChuckPa/DBRepair: Database repair utility for Plex Media Server databases

EXAMPLE: Using DBRepair inside containers (manual start/stop included)

(Select containers allow stopping/starting PMS from the menu. See menu for details)

    sudo docker exec -it plex /bin/bash

    # extract from downloaded version file name then cd into directory
    tar xf PlexDBRepair-1.0.0.tar.gz
    cd PlexDBRepair-1.0.0
    chmod +x DBRepair.sh
    ./DBRepair.sh
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