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I have the same issue. Running a Plex server (~6TB) at home, and thinking I need to put my media in a more accessible location. Are you using Amazon Drive as th

I have the same issue. Running a Plex server (~6TB) at home, and thinking I need to put my media in a more accessible location. Are you using Amazon Drive as the one true source and syncing it locally to use with your Plex Server? Or are you pulling/streaming directly from ACD?

AnkhMorporkian 10y ago
My setup is a little convoluted. I've found that using the write mount really slows me down, so I use a unionfs mount with the writes going to the local hard drive, and the cloud drive being the primary read source. Given that it's unionfs though, anything that I haven't synced will be read from the hard drive. So the order goes: Sonarr/CouchPotato -> Local Hard Drive -> Amazon Cloud Drive -> Plex. I stream directly off the cloud drive for any file older than an hour, as that's my upload interval.
- dhruvkar 10y ago
  nice. so you read from ACD, because you're mainly writing to local? Or is there another reason for NOT reading from local? also, does local completely mirror ACD, or have you found a way around that?
  - AnkhMorporkian 10y ago
    It doesn't mirror it at all. The local stuff is only a temporary holding place for it to sit until it gets uploaded to ACD, at which point it is unceremoniously deleted. I have >10TB on my cloud drive, but I'm using <10GB on my hard drive.
    - dhruvkar 10y ago
      Great! Going to give this a try.
      - AnkhMorporkian 10y ago
        Give me a shout if you need any help. I know HN doesn't have private messaging, but you can reach me on IRC on Freenode at AMorpork.
        dhruvkar 10y ago
        will do, thanks for the offer!
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yurymik 10y ago
Please keep in mind that Amazon is running a variant of content-id and may mistakenly think that your files are infringing someones rights: https://www.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/4j7wex/any_plex_users_utilizing_amazon_cloud_drive_may/ https://www.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/4j7wex/any_plex_users... https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/4j5fsi/after_storing_over_8tb_of_my_films_and_series_on/ https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/4j5fsi/after_s...
- AnkhMorporkian 10y ago
  As I mentioned in another comment, you can avoid all that by using encfs, which encrypts the files before they ever reach amazon. Edit: Just read the first reddit post. I call BS on anyone using encfs consistently and receiving a legitimate email from Amazon. Unless they've broken strong encryption, there's just no way.
  - skrowl 10y ago
    Or they could just be using it as an excuse to get rid of high usage (non profitable) users. Encrypted files + you use a lot of storage and bandwidth = get kicked off.
DavideNL 10y ago
Fyi, you might want to check this out (scroll to the bottom and start with the first post): https://amc.ovh/ https://amc.ovh/
- dhruvkar 10y ago
  exactly what i needed.
  - AnkhMorporkian 10y ago
    I can +1 that. It's definitely not an A->B->C, but it's enough to get you 95% of the way there.

AnkhMorporkian 10y ago

My setup is a little convoluted. I've found that using the write mount really slows me down, so I use a unionfs mount with the writes going to the local hard drive, and the cloud drive being the primary read source. Given that it's unionfs though, anything that I haven't synced will be read from the hard drive. So the order goes: Sonarr/CouchPotato -> Local Hard Drive -> Amazon Cloud Drive -> Plex. I stream directly off the cloud drive for any file older than an hour, as that's my upload interval.

dhruvkar 10y ago
nice. so you read from ACD, because you're mainly writing to local? Or is there another reason for NOT reading from local? also, does local completely mirror ACD, or have you found a way around that?
- AnkhMorporkian 10y ago
  It doesn't mirror it at all. The local stuff is only a temporary holding place for it to sit until it gets uploaded to ACD, at which point it is unceremoniously deleted. I have >10TB on my cloud drive, but I'm using <10GB on my hard drive.
  - dhruvkar 10y ago
    Great! Going to give this a try.
    - AnkhMorporkian 10y ago
      Give me a shout if you need any help. I know HN doesn't have private messaging, but you can reach me on IRC on Freenode at AMorpork.
      - dhruvkar 10y ago
        will do, thanks for the offer!
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yurymik 10y ago

Please keep in mind that Amazon is running a variant of content-id and may mistakenly think that your files are infringing someones rights: https://www.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/4j7wex/any_plex_users_utilizing_amazon_cloud_drive_may/ https://www.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/4j7wex/any_plex_users... https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/4j5fsi/after_storing_over_8tb_of_my_films_and_series_on/ https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/4j5fsi/after_s...

AnkhMorporkian 10y ago
As I mentioned in another comment, you can avoid all that by using encfs, which encrypts the files before they ever reach amazon. Edit: Just read the first reddit post. I call BS on anyone using encfs consistently and receiving a legitimate email from Amazon. Unless they've broken strong encryption, there's just no way.
- skrowl 10y ago
  Or they could just be using it as an excuse to get rid of high usage (non profitable) users. Encrypted files + you use a lot of storage and bandwidth = get kicked off.

DavideNL 10y ago

Fyi, you might want to check this out (scroll to the bottom and start with the first post): https://amc.ovh/ https://amc.ovh/

dhruvkar 10y ago
exactly what i needed.
- AnkhMorporkian 10y ago
  I can +1 that. It's definitely not an A->B->C, but it's enough to get you 95% of the way there.