May 24, 201115 yr Any of you guys use the slack install or you running all this off of a usb drive? Most of us run the OS off the USB thumbdrive as designed. I'm sure there are a few tinkerers in here who are more adventurous, but I couldn't say who.
May 24, 201115 yr mmm. yes, fantastic point. I don't know if you're just guessing that everything is hunky dory with astraweb, but I can tell you that their headers have been sporadically broken for the last few months. Some days are better than others. As I continue to index them, I find that the problems have steadily gotten worse. When I was still using them to pull binaries, it wasn't as noticeable and most things completed without too much help from PAR. But ya, it is. Odd. It's been working perfectly for me over the past months. I haven't had any incompletes at all and have not had to do repairs, but then again I use NZBs to pull content.
May 24, 201115 yr mmm. yes, fantastic point. I don't know if you're just guessing that everything is hunky dory with astraweb, but I can tell you that their headers have been sporadically broken for the last few months. Some days are better than others. As I continue to index them, I find that the problems have steadily gotten worse. When I was still using them to pull binaries, it wasn't as noticeable and most things completed without too much help from PAR. But ya, it is. Odd. It's been working perfectly for me over the past months. I haven't had any incompletes at all and have not had to do repairs, but then again I use NZBs to pull content. Also had absolutely no problems with it.
May 24, 201115 yr mmm. yes, fantastic point. I don't know if you're just guessing that everything is hunky dory with astraweb, but I can tell you that their headers have been sporadically broken for the last few months. Some days are better than others. As I continue to index them, I find that the problems have steadily gotten worse. When I was still using them to pull binaries, it wasn't as noticeable and most things completed without too much help from PAR. But ya, it is. Headers? It's 2011. Who downloads headers? I use about 5 different indexers and automated NZB downloads. I never download headers. I've been using Astraweb for about 3 years, I pay $96 a year and so far have had 1 failed download where I need to use blocknews to fill (and that was only because it was an ancient post). I pull down about 3 to 5TB a month. Yes, TB. If you have money to burn, use GigaNews and pay at least 3x the price. Otherwise, if you're a cheapskate (or budget conscious) like me, Astraweb is a great choice.
May 24, 201115 yr mmm. yes, fantastic point. I don't know if you're just guessing that everything is hunky dory with astraweb, but I can tell you that their headers have been sporadically broken for the last few months. Some days are better than others. As I continue to index them, I find that the problems have steadily gotten worse. When I was still using them to pull binaries, it wasn't as noticeable and most things completed without too much help from PAR. But ya, it is. Headers? It's 2011. Who downloads headers? I use about 5 different indexers and automated NZB downloads. I never download headers. I've been using Astraweb for about 3 years, I pay $96 a year and so far have had 1 failed download where I need to use blocknews to fill (and that was only because it was an ancient post). I pull down about 3 to 5TB a month. Yes, TB. If you have money to burn, use GigaNews and pay at least 3x the price. Otherwise, if you're a cheapskate (or budget conscious) like me, Astraweb is a great choice. the people that are indexing your nzbs, use headers. so, 2011--ya, we're still using them. As I said, the end-user impact hasn't been too bad, but the people indexing astraweb have seen the issues. part-repair/rebuild with creating nzbs has been a bit of a nightmare some nights. I've switched between astraweb-eu/us ssl servers a few times. If the headers are incomplete, or partial--you'll get par rebuilds more and more. I'll be testing usenetserver on the server side when my astraweb per/gb account runs out. I've already switched to it at home.
May 24, 201115 yr the people that are indexing your nzbs, use headers. so, 2011--ya, we're still using them. Why would you index astraweb specifically, when posts propagate to all usenet servers? Surely if you're indexing, you'd use a better, more expensive NSP, like GN? Everyone should know by now that AW is cheap for a reason. It's not 100% reliable, but it does work for what 99.999999999% of its users use it for.
May 24, 201115 yr I guess I'm not understanding the point of this Chevy-vs-Ford conversation. Being an NZB nub I just assumed they all worked in a similar fashion.
May 24, 201115 yr the people that are indexing your nzbs, use headers. so, 2011--ya, we're still using them. Why would you index astraweb specifically, when posts propagate to all usenet servers? Surely if you're indexing, you'd use a better, more expensive NSP, like GN? Everyone should know by now that AW is cheap for a reason. It's not 100% reliable, but it does work for what 99.999999999% of its users use it for. Hey Neil--bandwidth isnt free --and the cost to keep the sites free is steep. The guys I know running indexing sites, still use astraweb for the header accounts. It takes forever to chew through those per gb accounts, until you start checking rar's for passwords and downloading nfos. anyway, was just tossing in my two cents... back to trying to get unraid to work on a full slack build :-/
June 9, 201115 yr I want to install sickbeard, i looked at lionhurtz guide which installs sickbeard server to the cache drive, but i dont use one... so do i install the sickbeard server to run of flash drive.... or is this a nad idea? btw using ver 4.7
June 9, 201115 yr It' a bad idea using the flash drive because there is a lot of writing done by these programs. In fact, after the install you should monitor the writes to the cache disk to ensure a stray log file or some other such thing isn't on the flash drive and being written to all the time. Just use an array disk, for example disk1, instead of the cache disk. Peter
June 10, 201115 yr What I have done with my sabnzbd setup is that the program runs of flash device (/boot/packages) but all downloads & logs files kept on array (/mnt/user/sabnzbd) Couldn't i do the same with sickbeard?
June 11, 201115 yr i would like sickbeard to cache to /mnt/user/sickbeard/cache so i did this in the config file... cache_dir = cacheroot_dirs = /mnt/user/sickbeard/cachetv_download_dir well it seems to have half worked in that in redirected sickbeard directory i get this now /mnt/user/sickbeard/CHJV77~1/mnt/user/sickbeard/cache/tvdb instead of like this /mnt/user/sickbeard/cache/tvdb
June 11, 201115 yr You probably should also set the log file to use a hard disk. Peter Yep, managed to redirect logs & cache to a sickbeard share i would like to place the sickbeard config file in the config folder instead can i just simply copy and paste it into there and put this in my go script? python /boot/packages/sickbeard/SickBeard.py --daemon -f /boot/config/config.ini Thanks
June 11, 201115 yr In fact, after the install you should monitor the writes to the cache disk to ensure a stray log file or some other such thing isn't on the flash drive and being written to all the time. Peter I did a quick look around in unMenu, but didn't see where I could monitor flash drive read and write counts. Does such a thing exist and I missed it?
June 11, 201115 yr MyMain will show them. I thought the default page for unMENU showed the reads and writes on the flash drive too. Peter
June 14, 201115 yr MyMain will show them. I thought the default page for unMENU showed the reads and writes on the flash drive too. Peter My default unMenu doesn't show it, but you are right, MyMain does. What would a "normal" write count be for a couple months of uptime? I've got 62 days of uptime, and 42,000 writes. That sounds high to me, but I'm not sure. Check that, it's WAY high. My other server with 31 days of uptime has 150 writes on it. What would be the most efficient way to determine the offending program? Can I do a file search for recently modified files somehow?
June 14, 201115 yr MyMain will show them. I thought the default page for unMENU showed the reads and writes on the flash drive too. Peter My default unMenu doesn't show it, but you are right, MyMain does. What would a "normal" write count be for a couple months of uptime? I've got 62 days of uptime, and 42,000 writes. That sounds high to me, but I'm not sure. Check that, it's WAY high. My other server with 31 days of uptime has 150 writes on it. What would be the most efficient way to determine the offending program? Can I do a file search for recently modified files somehow? Turn each program off one by one and monitor for when the writes stop
June 14, 201115 yr MyMain will show them. I thought the default page for unMENU showed the reads and writes on the flash drive too. Peter My default unMenu doesn't show it, but you are right, MyMain does. What would a "normal" write count be for a couple months of uptime? I've got 62 days of uptime, and 42,000 writes. That sounds high to me, but I'm not sure. Check that, it's WAY high. My other server with 31 days of uptime has 150 writes on it. What would be the most efficient way to determine the offending program? Can I do a file search for recently modified files somehow? Turn each program off one by one and monitor for when the writes stop The writes haven't incremented in the last several hours, and I've done nothing to stop any programs. Is there no quick and easy way to find recently modified files?
June 14, 201115 yr The writes haven't incremented in the last several hours, and I've done nothing to stop any programs. Is there no quick and easy way to find recently modified files? Type ls -ltr /boot | tail -10 It will list the 10 most recently changed files/folders. repeat on subdirectories if needed.
June 14, 201115 yr MyMain will show them. I thought the default page for unMENU showed the reads and writes on the flash drive too. Peter My default unMenu doesn't show it, but you are right, MyMain does. What would a "normal" write count be for a couple months of uptime? I've got 62 days of uptime, and 42,000 writes. That sounds high to me, but I'm not sure. Check that, it's WAY high. My other server with 31 days of uptime has 150 writes on it. What would be the most efficient way to determine the offending program? Can I do a file search for recently modified files somehow? Turn each program off one by one and monitor for when the writes stop The writes haven't incremented in the last several hours, and I've done nothing to stop any programs. Is there no quick and easy way to find recently modified files? Google is your friend ls -lt $(find /boot -type f) | less OR to redirect all output to a file for you to open in a text editor and look through ls -lt $(find /boot -type f) > /boot/modified_files.txt
June 18, 201115 yr I noticed SB is stopping one of my disks going to sleep. SB writes its log to /disk2/sickbeard/logs I have noticed when i delete the log file in the above folder that disk2 then goes to sleep without a problem. Has anyone else had this problem?
July 30, 201114 yr Trying this whole thing out but still confused I have sickbeard and sabnzbd installed on unRaid. The wiki guide seems a bit out of date so there were a few sections relating to sickbeard I couldn't find in the current version. Anyway, what I'm most confused about it what accounts I need. I've got a trial account with GigaNews, is this all I need or do I also need an account with say NewzBin? If so, why? Still confused about whats whats really.
July 30, 201114 yr Trying this whole thing out but still confused I have sickbeard and sabnzbd installed on unRaid. The wiki guide seems a bit out of date so there were a few sections relating to sickbeard I couldn't find in the current version. Anyway, what I'm most confused about it what accounts I need. I've got a trial account with GigaNews, is this all I need or do I also need an account with say NewzBin? If so, why? Still confused about whats whats really. I just set it up as well and am still learning things. Anyways you will need something like nzbmatrix/newsbin to get the nzb's as far as I have figured it works this way you setup couch/sick with the nzb accounts qnd what movies/tv shows you want couch/sick monitors the nzb sites to find what you are looking for couch/sick then downloads the nzb and pipes it over to sabnzb to download/process. after that you are the creepy person who no one sees cause you are always watching downloaded movies/tv shows
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