Unlimited Plex Server on unRAID

software Plex cloud rclone unRAID

This tutorial is not as detailed as https://hoarding.me so I suggest first reading through that tutorial to get a broad view of how it rclone, Sonarr and Radarr work with the cloud.

unRAID makes running a cloud based unlimited Plex server not as easy as it's on Ubuntu. So here's a tutorial for unRAID.

Required Plugins

To install the needed plugins, just enter 

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Squidly271/community.applications/master/plugins/community.applications.plg

to Plugins > Install Plugin. After refreshing the site you should see a new Tab called Apps, under that Tab you just search for User Scripts and rclone and install both of those plugins.

For our setup we also need unionfs and plexdrive for which I didn't find any plugin, so I wrote my own. Install it like Community Applications with https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Starbix/unRAID-plugins/master/plugins/unionfs.plg and https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Starbix/unRAID-plugins/master/plugins/plexdrive.plg.

To edit your rclone config, SSH into your server and execute rclone config.

Add the following remotes:

Name                 Type
====                 ====
gdrive               drive
gdrivecrypt          crypt  ("remote" = "/mnt/disks/pd/crypt")
uploadcrypt          crypt  ("remote" = "gdrive:crypt")

Note: Use the same password for the crypt remotes.

Then create the config file of plexdrive using

plexdrive mount /mnt/disks/pd -c "/mnt/user/appdata/plexdrive" -o allow_other -v 2

then upload mountcheck files used for checking whether everything is mounted properly or not

touch mountcheck
rclone copy mountcheck uploadcrypt:Series -vv --no-traverse
rclone copy mountcheck uploadcrypt:Movies -vv --no-traverse
rclone copy mountcheck uploadcrypt: -vv --no-traverse

Then go to

After setting up your rclone shares, go into Settings > User Scripts.

Here we'll need to add several scripts. (These scripts are mostly stolen from hoarding.me)

fuse_mount - at Startup of the Array

#!/bin/bash
if [[ -f "/mnt/user/media/cloud/Series/mountcheck" ]] && [[ -f "/mnt/user/media/cloud/Movies/mountcheck" ]]; then
echo "$(date "+%d.%m.%Y %T") INFO: Check successful, Series and Movies fuse mounted."
exit
else
echo "$(date "+%d.%m.%Y %T") ERROR: Series and Movies not mounted, remount in progress."
# Unmount before remounting
fusermount -uz /mnt/user/media/cloud/Series
fusermount -uz /mnt/user/media/cloud/Filme
unionfs -o cow,allow_other,direct_io,auto_cache,sync_read /mnt/user/media/cloud/Seriestmp=RW:/mnt/disks/crypt/Series=RO /mnt/user/media/cloud/Series
unionfs -o cow,allow_other,direct_io,auto_cache,sync_read /mnt/user/media/cloud/Moviestmp=RW:/mnt/disks/crypt/Movies=RO /mnt/user/media/cloud/Movies
if [[ -f "/mnt/user/media/cloud/Series/mountcheck" ]] && [[ -f "/mnt/user/media/cloud/Movies/mountcheck" ]]; then
echo "$(date "+%d.%m.%Y %T") INFO: Remount of Series and Movies successful."
else
echo "$(date "+%d.%m.%Y %T") CRITICAL: Remount failed."
fi
fi
exit

rclone_mount - at Startup of the Array

#!/bin/bash

mkdir -p /mnt/disks/pd
mkdir -p /mnt/disks/crypt

#This section mounts the various cloud storage into the folders that were created above.
if [[ -f "/mnt/disks/crypt/mountcheck" ]]; then
echo "$(date "+%d.%m.%Y %T") INFO: Check successful, crypt mounted."
exit
else
echo "$(date "+%d.%m.%Y %T") ERROR: Drive not mounted, remount in progress."
# Unmount before remounting
fusermount -uz /mnt/disks/crypt
fusermount -uz /mnt/disks/pd
plexdrive mount /mnt/disks/pd -c "/mnt/user/appdata/plexdrive" -o allow_other -v 2 &
rclone mount --max-read-ahead 512M --allow-other --allow-non-empty -v --buffer-size 1G gdrivecrypt: /mnt/disks/crypt &
if [[ -f "/mnt/disks/crypt/mountcheck" ]]; then
echo "$(date "+%d.%m.%Y %T") INFO: Remount successful."
else
echo "$(date "+%d.%m.%Y %T") CRITICAL: Remount failed."
fi
fi
exit

rclone_unmount - at Stopping of the Array

#!/bin/bash
fusermount -uz /mnt/user/media/cloud/Movies
fusermount -uz /mnt/user/media/cloud/Series
fusermount -uz /mnt/disks/crypt
fusermount -uz /mnt/disks/pd

rclone_upload - */30 * * * * or whatever you want

#!/bin/bash
uploadfolderMovies="/mnt/user/media/cloud/Moviestmp" 
uploadfolderSeries="/mnt/user/media/cloud/Seriestmp" 
rclone move $uploadfolderSeries uploadcrypt:/Series -vv --no-traverse --transfers=15 --checkers=4 --drive-chunk-size 512M --delete-after
rclone move $uploadfolderMovies uploadcrypt:/Movies -vv --no-traverse --transfers=15 --checkers=4 --drive-chunk-size 512M --delete-after

Setup Radarr, Sonarr and Plex

You need to mount /media with the RW/Slave option in both Radarr and Sonarr. Otherwise it won't work.

Point Sonarr to /media/cloud/Series for folder containing shows. Point Radarr to /media/cloud/Movies for folder containing movies.

Point Plex directly to the rclone mount /mnt/disks/crypt/Movies and /mnt/disks/crypt/Series using the RO/Slave option.

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