I am trying to organize my media so that certain files are on certain drives. For example: 

• Movies: Disk 1
• TV: Disk 2, Disk 3
• Anime: Disk 4
• Music: Disk 5
• Misc files (downloads): Disk 6

However, I am finding that when I acquire new media, it tends to stay on the drive where it was initially downloaded which is causing the download disk to get full before everything else. I am currently using Unbalanced to migrate the files to the correct disk when it becomes an issue, but is a slow and manual process; something I am trying to understand how to avoid going forward.

 

I am using nzbget as my downloader and my completed downloads directory is on drive 6. I believe the reason for this is because bullet point #2 in the behavior outlined in this post: 

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The Linux command for Move and Rename are the same, mv. So when you try to move files from one user share to another, Linux will often simply rename the files so they have a different path on the same disk, in violation of any user share settings such as included disks. The workaround for this is to copy from source to destination, so that new files get created following the user share settings, then deleting from the source.

 

My question is: How can I configure my server to automatically put the files on the correct disks so that manual intervention via unbalanced isn't necessary?

 

I have checked my nzbget and *arr settings and haven't seen any options to set a per category 'incomplete' InterDir directory for storing the download parts. My research has shown that as long as the InterDir is specified, nzbget unzips of these files within the 'incomplete' InterDir directory and them moves (mv) them to completed DestDir directory specified via the category.  Additionally, I haven't seen any settings for these applications to copy then delete the files out of the downloads directory.

 

Am I missing these critical settings? Or do I need to re-evaluate how I am storing my data? Curious if anyone has gotten a setup similar to this working. Any guidance would be very much appreciated. 

 

Edit: Grammar, spelling, & additional context.

Edited January 6, 20251 yr by Nexal

2 hours ago, Nexal said:

my nzbget and *arr settings

What are the volume mappings for these?

Also, attach Diagnostics so we can get a clearer idea of how your shares are configured.

On 1/5/2025 at 10:35 AM, trurl said:

What are the volume mappings for these?

On 1/5/2025 at 10:44 AM, trurl said:

Also, attach Diagnostics so we can get a clearer idea of how your shares are configured.

Please let me know if there is anything else you need. Thanks!

nas-diagnostics-20250106-1347.zip

Bump... any idea why this might be happening or what I can do about it? Thanks!