Hi All,
I have my library residing on Amazon Cloud Drive. My Plex server resides on my server at my house, mounting ACD with acd_cli. For the most part it works well. It sometimes buffers or timesout, but nothing that is too annoying. (I had setup a Plex server in dedicated hosting, but running the plex server at home had better performance.) I have recently just dumped a few terabytes of new media into my ACD. I went to “Update Library” so that the new media would be scanned and appear, however this “lit up” my home Internet connection. I have a 200 megabit connection and it flooded my connection. This wouldn’t be a problem if I didn’t have a 1 TB cap from my provider. In just an hour, I was over 50GB transferred. I have turned off “Create thumbnail” and “Chapter previews”. Is there anyway to just scan the filenames of the files and just the first few megabytes so that I don’t max out my connection? Thanks.
Check one more thing.
Go to your Settings - Server - Library and enable “Partial” scanning. No need to rescan what it doesn’t need to.
Thanks. Partial scanning is enabled. It is only scanning the new media I added. But in the scanning process, it is downloading gigabytes of data. Is there any way to not have it download all of that data? I would be happy with just the filename and size showing in Plex.
Do you have it creating Thumbnails? Chapter Indexes? Those will make it scan most, if not all, of the file.
Those are both turned off.
Grab the log files please while it’s performing an update (settings - server - help - download logs) and attach the zip file here.
Then stop it and we’ll see what it’s doing.
Have you noticed a spike in CPU utilization or do you have “Deep Analysis” turned on in Scheduled Tasks?
