# Plex Downloading while not in use

**URL:** https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-downloading-while-not-in-use/895622
**Category:** Plex Media Server
**Tags:** server-linux
**Created:** [November 16, 2024, 6:38am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-downloading-while-not-in-use/895622 "2024-11-16T06:38:44Z")
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### Author: ![garyyamamoto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e0b2c6/32.png) [@garyyamamoto](https://forums.plex.tv/u/garyyamamoto)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2024, 6:38am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-downloading-while-not-in-use/895622/1 "2024-11-16T06:38:44Z")

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Server Version#: Version 1.41.2.9200

I am looking for help to find out what this strange behaviour I am seeing.

My home server has failed. So instead I am currently hosting plex on a virtual machine on a dedicated server I rent from a IaaS provider. This machine connects to my QNAP NAS on my home local network.

This is what I am finding strange. Almost every night around 10PM the upload traffic from my NAS jumps to 7MB/s and constantly stays up there for hours. Usually anywhere from 20 - 40 GB is uploaded.

I want to find out what is causing this behaviour.

I know it is coming from Plex as while this is happening, the traffic returns to normal as soon as stop the plexmediaserver.service.

Now, I have gone through and disabled downloading on all accounts that have access to my libraries to ensure this was not the cause and I made sure that no one was streaming content when this behaviour is observed.

Can someone please point me in the right direction on what I can check?

Plex is running on Ubuntu 22.04.

Thanks in advance for any help.

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### Author: ![ChuckPa](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/chuckpa/32/79710_2.png) [@ChuckPa](https://forums.plex.tv/u/ChuckPa)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2024, 7:25am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-downloading-while-not-in-use/895622/2 "2024-11-16T07:25:24Z")

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In **Scheduled Tasks** ,

the options are usually set to perform deep media analysis every night on a small group of files until done

If this is bothing you, you can turn it off.

 ![Screenshot from 2024-11-16 02-24-08](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/4X/f/f/1/ff1bda702df9bd208e356119dc6589cc0627758a.png)

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### Author: ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2025, 7:25am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-downloading-while-not-in-use/895622/3 "2025-02-14T07:25:53Z")

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