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Watch state: I don't think it does. The watch state is stored in a SQLite database. You can read more about it here. Repulling metadata: Correct, but that is simply a matter of time. Backing up Plex's entire directory takes me a little under an hour and eats many 10's of GB of disk space. That means all containers are down, there is extra wear/tear on my disks, and I am backing up data that is neither unique nor user-created. I can simply have Plex pull all that data down again should I need it. Manually or automatically? If manually: cp <destination_directory_configured_in_plugin>\<name_of_backup_file> <location_to_keep_second_backup> If automatically, create a script with all the cp commands you need and run it automatically using either cron on a script-running plugin. Hear, hear! I already offered, now I am offering again. PayPal? Venmo? Charitable donation to a cause you feel strongly about?

I can help here. Open the unRAID terminal and go to your backup Destination Share: cd <Destination_Share> Find the backup you are looking for: ls Go into the directory of the backup you want to restore from: cd <backup_directory> Find the backup file you are looking for. In my example I am looking for <any>swag<any>: ls *swag* [Used only for demo purposes, don't do this.] I created a temp directory that I'll later delete: mkdir /mnt/cache/appdata/_testing_ Extract the backup file from step 4 into your appdata directory [I used my temp directory.]: tar -zxvf <backup_filename> -C /mnt/cache/appdata/

Just type them in here, each separated by a comma: As for what to type in that field, I use QDirStat running in a Docker container to figure out where the large (in file size and in file count) directories are. I think it would be *stellar* to see that kind of visibility within the backup plugin itself. Something like this: Now you can see why I picked to exclude these directories. I second this! I've been bitten by the 'days old' setting before. If you configure it to backup every n days and you set the 'days old' setting to a number less than n, I believe it will delete your previous backups (all of them!). I think it would be great to have setting like, "keep 3 backs minimum, regardless of age, and 6 backups maximum".

Excellent work. My backups are much, much faster now that plex's and radarr's metadata are excluded: root@Rack:/mnt/user/backups/Community_Applications/Backups/Appdata_Backup# du -h --max-depth=1 && ls -lh 2022-12-05\@09.56/CA_backup_plex.tar.gz && ls -lh 2022-12-05\@11.16/CA_backup_plex.tar.gz 13G ./[email protected] 94G ./[email protected] 105G ./[email protected] 105G ./[email protected] 94G ./[email protected] 409G . -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 77G Dec 5 10:44 2022-12-05\@09.56/CA_backup_plex.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3.8G Dec 5 11:25 2022-12-05\@11.16/CA_backup_plex.tar.gz root@Rack:/mnt/user/backups/Community_Applications/Backups/Appdata_Backup# The 94G and 105G backups are from me testing the (at the time) broken exclude feature both with (94G) and without (105G) compression. The archive for plex dropped from 77G compressed to just 3.8GB compressed! For anyone interested, I exclude: /mnt/user/appdata/plex/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Cache/, /mnt/user/appdata/plex/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Media/, /mnt/user/appdata/plex/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Metadata/, /mnt/user/appdata/radarr/MediaCover/

Dang it, just confirmed the same on my end. I was going off what I had read earlier in this thread. I am sure @KluthR will figure it out.

Try changing the exclude paths from /mnt/user/appdata/foo/bar/ to /mnt/cache/appdata/foo/bar/. This isn't a permanent fix in my opinion, but I believe it will work until the developer can figure it out. Speaking of that, @KluthR, you're a rockstar. Thanks for the hard work! I am having the same issue and I wanted to see what you thought about it. Also, what is the best way to buy you a few beers?

Done.

No luck with a wipe/reinstall of the container. Also killed the appdata directory, made no difference. Both containers are on the same network type (proxy network for SWAG). Interested in some live troubleshooting this week?

RE: Cachet When starting Cachet I get the following error: Initializing Cachet container ... Attempting to connect to database ... ........................................................... Could not connect to database server! Aborting... I am using MariaDB in Docker, and it is known to be working prior to Cachet. Login below uses the password via copy/paste from the Cachet Docker config screen in unRAID so there are no typos: root@0c2f1410a349:/# mysql -u cachet -p Warning: World-writable config file '/etc/mysql/conf.d/custom.cnf' is ignored Enter password: Welcome to the MariaDB monitor. Commands end with ; or \g. Your MariaDB connection id is 70 Server version: 10.4.18-MariaDB-1:10.4.18+maria~bionic-log mariadb.org binary distribution Copyright (c) 2000, 2018, Oracle, MariaDB Corporation Ab and others. Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input statement. MariaDB [(none)]> show databases; +--------------------+ | Database | +--------------------+ | cachet | | information_schema | +--------------------+ 2 rows in set (0.001 sec) MariaDB [(none)]> use cachet Database changed MariaDB [cachet]> show tables; Empty set (0.000 sec) MariaDB [cachet]> Here is the relevant data from the Cachet config: Proof that IP and port are correct: Error when starting Cachet: I feel like I am missing something simple here.

This might prove useful to those unable to get Big Sur downloaded and running: https://github.com/munki/macadmin-scripts/blob/main/installinstallmacos.py This script can download the Big Sur install image: Product ID Version Build Date Title 001-86606 11.1 20C69 2020-12-14 macOS Big Sur That install file is 12.22 GB when completely downloaded, and you'll need to download a copy and then convert it (the script does this for you) so you'll need about 25GB of free space.

Squid to the rescue again.

+1 I'd love to see this feature. I could make a group for Plex, game servers, metrics, books, etc.

Please be more specific. Which plugin? What are your install steps? What error are you getting?

[SOLVED] It turns out the nVidia error that the driver wasn't compatible with this version of Windows was accurate. I was running built 10240 which was the first release of WIndows 10. I really need to delete my old ISOs. Once I upgraded to Windows 10 Pro version 1909, the graphics driver installed and ran with issue. I still have a few items in my device manager that need to be fixed, but my main issue, GPU passthough, is resolved. FYI, Microsoft makes it hard to get an ISO of 1909. Easy to get around, try this Google search: https://www.google.com/search?q="index+of"+Win10_1909_English_x64.iso

Here is the functional VM XML prior to testdasi's recommend changes. Note that Windows 10 Pro boots, has video, sound works, keyboard & mouse are good, etc. It appears that only video is an issue. 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