This is how it looks. Error were my videos is now.
It save the Libraries names. But looks like it don’t know any more then that.
thank you… Now i see it.
Whatever you had setup for the security in /media, or mounted elsewhere, to allow your USB drives to work is gone.
you need to recreate it or make fresh using this method.
Yes. I got them on a lot of UBS 3.0. It’s the same drives I had on it and I just copy the /etc/fstab file so they are all mounted the same place. They all have ext4 format.
Just started to scan the fist 10TB again. It will take a long time. But I will loss all the data I put in them. Good names, Not just like this “FILE180512-055544.MP4” so lost them.
Fixed the Dates too. Typed a lot of text on them too. It took me about 3 years. So lost it all.
But it can recan the data and I can start fresh again. But can’t remember it all.
-Raymond Day
Ouch. If I’m understanding you correctly, this is one of those cases where curating and assigning good name & structure as you go (tools like TheRename and FileBot) would save you hours (or days) of work .
When you get the names resolved, I think it will be in your better interest to burn the server down and start over.
I can still boot the old image I saved on a HDD. I had it on a 2TB SSD inside the server. It’s one m.2 SATA
Backed it up and I already booted it one time to save some things on the new install in the 2TB SSD inside it. But it’s a old Ubuntu.
-Raymond Day
I am not understanding what you have.
you somehow have multiple OS boot images .
I’m really sorry but this is way beyond what I can help sort out here.
Who helped you set this up?
No one. I did it myself. Put a live Ubuntu so it run on RAM and that’s how I copied the OS then I installed the new one and took me about a day to set it all up and the only thing I can’t get like it was is Plex.
-Raymond Day
Ok… Plex is really simple.
- apt installs and sets up the executable.
- /var/lib/plexmediaserver contains all the software knows about your media.
- User
plexis what the service needs. (installer creates the UID/GID if not present)
The magic:
- /var/lib/plexmediaserver is
chown -R plex:plex /var/lib/plexmediaserver - Start the service normally in systemctl
- Bring it up via the loopback adapter (http://127.0.0.1:32400/web)
If you can get the old /var/lib/plexmediaserver/Library (and all below it)
into the new one (under 20.04),
and do the chown -R,
it should run just fine.
I did that chown -R plex:plex /var/lib/plexmediaserver~
But I added the ~ on it. Because that one I copy from my backup. Then I renamed the other plaxmediaserver~~ like that and rename the other one took off the ~ on the end of it.
The I refreshed the web and it look just the same.
Right now putting the backup on another drive and going to copy the it again with:
rsync -avP /media/WD-3TB-green/var/lib/plexmediaserver/ /var/lib/plexmediaserver
WD-3TB-green I am using Etcher and it said about 16 min now. It started with 22 hours. The backup is named rayday_backup_image.img I had to unzip it. It fit on a 500GB hard drive when I 1st backed it up. That’s all I had when I backed it up and I did not use a lot of the 2GB OS.
I will see if this will work. It says 11 min. now.
-Raymond Day
OK I got the /var/lib/plexmediaserver folder copied from my backup.
But before that it was still scanning my 10TB drive when I got up this morning.
I renamed the /var/lib/plexmediaserver and refreshed the webpage and it was still working so don’t know where it was getting it from.
That’s what the /var/lib folder looks like now. See got 3 plexmediaserver folders eached name with ~ at the end of them did not went to delete them till got it working good. The one with just one ~ is what the .deb package installed. The one with ~~ is what I copied from the backup and the one with out is the new one I copied from the backup I just made again. But see its Owner is “squeezeboxserver” I do have that working and restored it good. So it was like that on my old OS and worked.
I know Plex can have updates and it just points to a .deb file. I can install it. So is there a update .deb file and maybe I can just install that and it will see all my data again?
-Raymond Day
Wow I got it working!
Had to delete the plexserver link in folder /etc/systemd/system
All so there was another folder with a plex link in it too. Don’t remember what one but I did delete all the links that were named plexserver dot something.
This time too did a chown -R plex:plex /var/lib/plexmediaserver then I installed the plexmediaserver_1.20.2.3343-c91f25744_amd64.deb refresh the URL to it and now it’s scanning or “Refreshing guide data: Initializing” I guess because have not run it for about a week.
Happy got it fixed with my old data still there.
The hent was when installing with apt it would say still using the backup link. The links is what I deleted. I guess the chown command help too when it installed.
Thank you all for the help.
-Raymond Day
Wow I don’t know why but the boot M.2 SSD 2TB got filled up no space left.
Could not find out what filled it up. After about 3 days trying I gave up and reinstalled fresh again.
last thing did plex again. I got got to do the chown -R plex:plex /var/lib/plexmediaserver So did that and refreshed the URL and it working again. Very good.
Hope it don’t fill up my boot drive.
Right now it’s saying:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb2 1.8T 19G 1.7T 2% /
Just got it all working the same again only the boot M.2 is not filled up.
In the morning will do the same df -h / command see what it will say…
Just wanted to let people know.
-Raymond Day
Is the drive partitioned (/home partition) ?
That’s a safe place to put the metadata (keeps the OS partition from overflowing) if it exists.
Also, turn off chapter and index images if you don’t use them. They use a lot of space
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