It is not clear to me if you updated Core to 13.3-RELEASE. Please do know you cannot install Core 13.3-RELEASE through the regular updater. You need to do that manually. THIS LINK will help you get going.
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Would you mind describing the process for the update to Scale?
I’m a newbie and this is all beyond my pay grade (I don’t see a menu option for this upgrade).
Thanks in advance.
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At this point what would you recommend? Go straight to SCALE or something?
How likely to mess other things up etc?
I have a spare server running Scale 25.04.0 (now Community Edition). Both Nextcloud and Plex are running fine as an app but i have not been able to familiarize myself with Linux yet nor with docker compose. As long as i haven’t figured this out, Core 13.3-RELEASE remains my main server. At the point i feel confident, i will migrate everything to the CE server and switch over. Not for now yet…
XigmaNAS…
Running awesome for me.
Bastille and vm-bhyve as extensions.
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Please help for a total dummy!
My Plex plugin and mediaserver needs to be updated because of the recent change in the Plex policy (my current mediaserver is now obsolete).
I just can’t update the Plex plugin in TrueNAS Core 13.
(Error: Host: 13.1-RELEASE is not greater than target: 13.2-RELEASE This is unsupported.)
Someone plz tell me the most basic way of speech what I can do now.
Should I just upgrade to SCALE?
Thanx a lot!
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Depends on how you want to handle it. You can upgrade to TrueNAS C.E. (Scale), or make a plain jail and install Plex via pkg, then move your server data from the old install to the new one.
You’ll need to back up the server info to a separate location of you’re changing to Scale, because the plug-in jail will be removed when you upgrade.
How painful to upgrade Scale? I’m just an amateur but I did my own mediaserver with TrueNAS Core and Plex. Is it possible just to upgrade to Scale and keep my current Plex setup with all the data? Is there a step by step guide for that and the other process, meaning the new jail, pkg install and move data?
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Not sure, I haven’t done it yet. 
One of my storage pools is still using geli encryption, so I’d have to remake it if I went to Scale. Also I didn’t want to redo all my apps with all the changing back and forth going on. I’ll probably change with the next version (Gold-something).
I changed from the plug-in to a normal jail years ago, because the plug-in wasn’t being kept up to date. If you’re going to stay on Core you would want to upgrade to the 13.3 release at this point.
Edit: too many typos in this post.
Please, would you elaborate how you changed to the normal jail, install by pkg and migrated the Plex data? Itt seems to me the easier way. I would really be grateful for a step by step instruction, if it’s not to much of a burden. Think of me as a complete dummy. Thanks.
Are you running the current TrueNAS Core (13.3U1.2)?
It isn’t, really. I mean, setting up a new jail (in 13.3, using FreeBSD 13.4) isn’t hard, nor is installing Plex (pkg install plexmediaserver), but before long, FreeBSD 13.4 will be EOL, and you won’t be able to update it any more.
Your only options that could be sustainable in the long term are (1) move to a different FreeBSD-based file server (perhaps XigmaNAS, perhaps straight FreeBSD, perhaps something else); (2) move to SCALE/CE; or (3) move to a completely different NAS OS. No matter what, you’re going to need to migrate your metadata/Plex config (or just discard it and start over).
Release 13.5 is available for jails now, but I just tried to make a new Plex jail using it and it’s not starting up.
Thank you guys. I have to sign out for a couple of days but then I make a decision and will be bothering you again. :)))
I’m thinking about upgrading to Scale to be able to install the new Plex media server program but I’d like to keep my Plex preferences (Plex Pass, covers, statuses, etc.)
Someone would be so kind to help me with this on a step-by-step basis?
I made my Core NAS from a tutorial so I’m a total dummy.
As far as I can see the first step would be saving the Plex data to a safe place (preferably a USB drive. I have no idea how to do that.
I’d really appreciate any good and patient advice.
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Your Plex Pass is an account status. You don’t really have to “back it up” as it’s a feature of your account with Plex (the company). The authentication is not on your NAS. You can only lose it if you delete your account with them.
The server databases, images, and everything else is in a folder called “plexdata” (or possibly “plexdata-plexpass” depending on what version you installed). You want to shut down the server and create a TAR archive of this directory, and copy it off the NAS. You can do this with a SSH/SFTP client.
Sorry but I’m already lost. A SSH/SFTP client? How to do it exactly?
(I completely understand if I don’t belong to here but I just don’t even know the basics since I’m not a computer guru. I have this problem though…)
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A remote command shell to another server (the TrueNAS system in this case). You’ll need to turn on the SSH service with Root access on the TrueNAS system as well. If you don’t know anything about how to navigate in a Linux/BSD filesystem via command line you’re not going to be able to do this.
I use Bitvise myself, but there are many options. Some completely command line, some like Bitvise or Tabby with a GUI for some functions.
Many thanx for your answer. I’ll give it a try anyway. What could go wrong?