My Plex server has been continually stopping after a period of time for the past few months.
Each and everytime I’m having to replace the database with one of the earlier backups.
There seems to something causing the database to corrupt but I’m at a loss as to what I actually causing it. I have it running on Synology DS418play I’ve tried changing between server versions but it has made no difference. Logs Attached.
Since you’re always replacing with an earlier database and it’s crashing – with a malformed database, I am going to assert that the backup you’re using is already damaged.
There is a way to test this.
Sign out of Plex/web (upper right)
Stop Plex
Open the Plex share
Rename “Library” to “Library.keep” (to save your existing metadata)
It will want you to sign in and start a fresh setup.
This is all expected
Now start the setup all over again as if a new server - which it functionally is
However , When you get to the page where it shows the Friendly Name*
Change it to something different than the other. (we need to avoid the two from colliding with each other).
Continue to setup as you normally would if bringing it all back from scratch.
Let’s see where that takes us.
I assert:
If the repeated failures were the result of the backup being corrupt, this new one will not crash
If this one also crashes and corrupts, we have a different problem to investigate. That would likely be hardware (dust bunnies, loose memory, or failing disks)
What I am having you do is create a test server, with a friendly name (Plex default to the name of the NAS
Thanks Chuck, I’ve given that a go. So will see if its anymore stable.
My only issue with this is that all the metadata changes I made to my vast library have all been lost.
Is there anyway to migrate that info from the keep library back over to the new one?
Maybe copying over a specific folder?
