Nirin

I'm having an odd issue with the backup of the Plex appdata folder : [05.02.2026 10:16:18][ℹ️][plex] tar creation failed! Tar said: tar: /mnt/user/appdata/plex/Plex Media Server/Plug-in support/Databases/com.plexapp.plugins.library.blobs.db-wal: file changed as we read it I already have all the recommended items and paths excluded, the issue seems to be that one of the database files is always altered during the backup. I tried making it so that plex is shutdown for backup, but this plugin refuses to allow that (shows an error message saying it's recommended not to shut down plex and keeps it running). I considered adding that blob to the exclusions, but it's a database file so I assume it's going to be a pain if I don't have a backup of it if I ever want to recover the plex install later! I've also tried setting the backup time to a time of day when noone is using plex, but that seems to make no difference the database backup still fails.

(Hoping this is the right subforum for this, as it's currently run as a userscript) StudioNirin/PlexCache-R Some of you may recognise this, as there has been an old version of this from a few years back by Brimur and Bexem. That ended up getting archived, and Brimur was happy to let me try and fix some bugs and expand the functionality a bit. After I released V1, I then got some amazing help from someone called Brandon and we have managed to pump out a whole slew of upgrades. Some of you may also recognise this because v1 and v2 were already released on the unraid subreddit... I just kept forgetting to actually make a post here lol. Intro/Recap: Automate Plex media management: Efficiently transfer media from the On Deck/Watchlist to the cache, and seamlessly move watched media back to their respective locations. An updated version of the "PlexCache-Refactored" script with various bugfixes and improvements. Hopefully fixed and improved anyway, time will tell! PlexCache efficiently transfers media from the On Deck/Watchlist to the cache and moves watched media back to their respective locations. This Python script reduces energy consumption by minimizing the need to spin up the array/hard drive(s) when watching recurrent media like TV series. It achieves this by moving the media from the OnDeck and watchlist for the main user and/or other users. For TV shows/anime, it also fetches the next specified number of episodes. V2.1.1 Update Notes: I'll write a bit of a shortlist version of the additions here, though we made a LOT of changes in this edition so even the changelog is probably missing a few things. Check the releases page notes for more details on each of these. But here goes: .plexcached Backup System When files are moved to cache, the original array file is renamed to filename.plexcached instead of being deleted. This reduces unnecessary file writes, and data loss if the cache drive fails. 2. OAuth PIN-Based Authentication Replaces manual token entry with Plex's official PIN-based OAuth. 3. Cache Retention Period 4. Watchlist Retention Period 5. Cache Size Limit New cache_limit setting to cap total cache usage. 6. Updated Setup Wizard Auto-detects missing settings and prompts to add them 7. Unraid Mover Exclusion File (manual custom entries) There is now a new generated file (unraid_mover_exclusions.txt) which allows for manually-entered custom exclusion links. 8. Multi-Path Mapping Support 9. Smart Cache Eviction System Cached files are now rated using a priority system, so that if the cache size limit is reached files will be removed based on age/priority of the individual files. Plus a bunch of debug and logging improvements. And as I say, probably a few other things we forgot to document. Migration should be pretty straightforward. However there are some of the usual recommendations: Make a backup of your old Plexcache-R folder. This is mostly so you can revert back if you have any issues. Just zip the folder or copy it somewhere else temporarily. Download the new files, and overwrite the old versions Run the setup script. This will look for and find missing settings and add them to your existing settings.json file. When it's finished, run the Plexcache-R script. And ... that's it, should just work at this point. As always, at your own risk, no responsibility etc. But if you have any issues please do post them on the github and we will do our best to help you out. We have been running this new version for a couple weeks now and haven't run into any issues as of yet, but there's always going to be something! StudioNirin/PlexCache-R There's already a lot of plans for v3 which will be a big update, but we don't have a release timeline yet and it's very much experimental. V2 however seems to be working well for the people that have reported back on reddit and on the github. Good luck!

I had a warning from unraid saying one of my disks was getting full, which was weird cos I should have had several TB of empty space on that disk. Turns out it was because the appdata backups were taking up huge amounts of space. I have it set to delete all backups older than 7 days, but I instead have several months worth of backups in the folder lol. I'm manually deleting them now, but is this a known issue and is there a fix?

Great plugin, really handy. I had the 'file activity' one installed before and it never worked correctly. Just a bit of feedback - when I select to order the log "by date", it doesn't actually sort the list of entries by date. It still sorts them by either share or disk first, and just sorts those by date/time. Which is fine, it does make sense, but there's no way to quickly scan between shares and disks as it's just a list of like 50 pages and the different shares/disks are in a random place. I assume the intended method (only one I've found anyway) is by turning on and off individual 'group' filters, but that seems like a bit of a workaround rather than a UX method. Not sure on a better solution, maybe have a 'front page' which shows the most recent 20 entries from each share/disk, so that info is all on one page, and then have the existing sort/filters database logs as the next page or a separate tab... I dunno, was just a thought, as I mostly use this to check for things causing my disks to spin up unecessarily etc so I only need to see recent files for each, rather than all the files for each sequentially. Regardless, the plugin works great as it is, thanks for putting the work in!

Does this container actually get fixes/updates regularly? I've noticed the icon for it has been broken for months now, and it still seems to have the same issue as a long time ago where it installs with incorrect permissions and so doesn't actually run without editing those... Otherwise I'll try the other container that seems to have been released.

Another bug to add to the pile - If "normal governer" is set to balanced power, then the "power save governer" can only be set to balanced power too. If I try and change it to power save, and hit apply, it just changes back to balanced power. However if I change the normal governer to something else like balanced-performance, then the power saving governer will change to power save. And can't be changed to balanced-power at all. Very weird behaviour. Something is conflicting somewhere.

I recently asked the exact same question. The only answer I got here was "test it for yourself". Which was less than helpful. However as the dev puts the 'balanced power' one in the 'power saving' menu, and not the balanced performance one, the assumption is that the descriptions are the wrong way around. Doubt it'll ever get fixed, dev doesn't seem active on here.

I mean I'd have to run like a week of 24/7 tests to figure out the difference, as the differences are going to be pretty minor either way except in long-term averages. Or I could just ask the dev which AMD profile is lined up with which power state, because AMD already did all that testing so there's no need for me to repeat the work unnecessarily. Considering the dev has 'balanced power' in the "power save cpu profile" dropdown, I assume that the titles are correct, and that its the descriptions that are backwards.

Hi sorry, just to confirm... are you just saying that because of the description (which doesn't match the title), or are you saying that because you know that's the right one, and the description is correct, but the title is wrong? Cos the titles don't match the descriptions, so one or the other is definitely incorrect lol. Going from 'max power saving' to 'max performance' should be: Power Save Balance_Power Balance_Performance Performance But you seem to be saying that balance_performance is more power saving than balance_power? Edit: Looking at other sources of the amd pstate drive, it does seem that 'balance_power' should be the more power efficient version compared to 'balance_performance', however I don't know if tips n tweaks has gotten it backwards or has a typo or something.

According to the help tooltip, it says if you set one to 'not used' it should hide that on the toolbar. However as you can see, it still displays it, just with a "--" so is there some way to remove that?

"Balanced Performance" - Set all CPUs frequency scaling to balanced_performance. Balances performance and power usage, with a slight bias toward efficiency. "Balanced Power" - Set all CPUs frequency scaling to balanced_power. Balances power and performance, but with a slight performance bias. This confused me a little, as the description has the 'Performance' one being biased towards efficiency, and the "power" one is biased to performance lol. Are these descriptions accidentally reversed? I am looking for the setting which is on the 'power saving' side of balanced.

I seem to be having the "Docker volume mount not detected" issue on my NVME drives (image attached). I have already checked here, and the 'solution' says to add a path to the docker (also image attached). However while that does trigger a rescan of the drives when booting up diskspeed, the error doesn't change. All four of the NVME drives are still erroring.

Only learned this was a thing today, really surprised that Unraid restricts the ability to use a useful drive health tool. It should 100% just automatically not spin down a drive if there's a smart test running. How was this not a day1 setting?

Came here with the same issue. I'm on 7.1.2, updated yesterday from v6.something, and today I don't seem to have the server in windows network anymore. I also can't find it by looking for \\server-name anymore. I can find it by using \\server-ip so that's fine at least, but it's a bit of a pain. I'll try turning off the docker option of host access and see if that fixes it but that may not be a long term solution if it breaks other functionality with my containers (I have no memory over whether it was needed for any of my containers or custom networks).

I'm trying to get the global exclusions working, but I had some issues, copying the ones in the example didn't work. I eventually figured it out - while the example says to format it like this: logs, log, *.png, .cache (etc etc, using comma and space to break up each one) This doesn't actually work. It only works if you put each entry in a new line. I assume this is a new change, as the per-container exclusions seem to work that way (new lines) by default (if you manually select the folders with the file-browser) so I guess the example text didn't get updated (?) Edit: I'll also add that because of the way the text box works, it currently also means that when you load the settings page it only shows the first two entries and doesn't indicate that there are a whole bunch more (you have to manually enlarge the text box to see them). I don't know if this is an unraid limitation or not, but if there's a way to fix it then it would be better!