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Plex Database extremly big

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Hi guys, i moved my plex database from Debian to Unraid Docker Container (plexinc)

after a very long first start of the PlexMediaServer (22 hours) it is finaly running, but the Database folder is around 50GB now

Plex is running at a normal speed as long as i dont do anything but streaming.

 

6.3G    Cache
5.4M    Codecs
0       Crash Reports
116M    Logs
3.9G    Media
13G     Metadata
50G     Plug-in Support
1.5M    Plug-ins

->>
22M     com.plexapp.dlna.db
192K    com.plexapp.dlna.db-shm
22M     com.plexapp.dlna.db-wal
21M     com.plexapp.plugins.library.blobs.db
128K    com.plexapp.plugins.library.blobs.db-shm
14M     com.plexapp.plugins.library.blobs.db-wal
25G     com.plexapp.plugins.library.db
197M    com.plexapp.plugins.library.db-shm
26G     com.plexapp.plugins.library.db-wal

any suggestions? i tried the database optimization wich tooks 24 hours, i deleted a media library and again have to wait for another 24 hours for DB optimization to be completed.

Ar there any tools to clean up the database ?

Hi, are you sure your issue is with the database size ? What was the size on your Debian ?

Where is located your plex appdata ? HDD Array or SSD pool ?

What is your hardware like ?

 

Sharing your diagonstics in your next post might help to have a better picture of the situation.

(Tools/Diagnostics)

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complete size of my debian backup has 17gb including cache,db,media,metadata. I added a lot of new mEdia since then, Plex Appdata is on SSD Cache

 

Diagnostics attached:

 

server-diagnostics-20201009-1958.zip

Edited by k04l

  • 3 weeks later...

my DB is sitting at 394gb...

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i am at 109GB right now, so still growing, and i dont know why. Datbase optimization takes 3 days now... i think i have to do a fresh PMS here.

i take a screenshot of my Playlists so i can rebuild them one day..

On 10/9/2020 at 9:09 AM, k04l said:

i moved my plex database

How did you move it?  Plex makes extreme usage of symlinks, and if the files all got expanded to their full size you'd see what you're seeing.

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On 11/1/2020 at 4:52 PM, Squid said:

How did you move it?  Plex makes extreme usage of symlinks, and if the files all got expanded to their full size you'd see what you're seeing.

i tar.gziped it and unpacked it on the destination system like plex wiki described it to move a plex Datbase

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