can somebody post or pm me some "other" free ones that work that I can use as a backup

 

-=Jason=-

second! 

can somebody post or pm me some "other" free ones that work that I can use as a backup

 

-=Jason=-

 

Free what?

can somebody post or pm me some "other" free ones that work that I can use as a backup

 

-=Jason=-

 

Free what?

index sites for Sabnzdb and Astraweb/other usenet to search in.  I currently use Nzbmatrix and paid for the VIP service.

can somebody post or pm me some "other" free ones that work that I can use as a backup

 

-=Jason=-

 

Free what?

index sites for Sabnzdb and Astraweb/other usenet to search in.  I currently use Nzbmatrix and paid for the VIP service.

 

I listed virtually all of them in my previous post!

neilt0, I thought you were taking about  news hosting servers, not nzb index sites.  if you are donwloading a particular file and it can't be repaired SAB will use your backup SERVERS to try and complete that file.

 

-=Jason=-

So what is a good news server for a block-based plan, to use as a back-up server.  I'm currently using Astraweb monthly plan. I'm liking it so far, with the ocassional failed download, so I'm thinking of getting the yearly plan.

Have anyone here used giganews?

I never used Giganews as it was always at least twice the price for the same service, but many friends and coworkers used to until they found less expensive providers.

Have anyone here used giganews?

 

not worth the money anymore. they used to be vastly superior than the rest but now they are at best very slightly better and sometime 2-3 times more expensive.

 

not worth it

I was with usenet server and was getting about 8 out of 20 failed downloads which I could manually repair. I am now with Astraweb and get 1 out of 20, if that. Much better.

 

But i still there is something wrong with the Sab setup not repairing files.

So what is a good news server for a block-based plan, to use as a back-up server.  I'm currently using Astraweb monthly plan. I'm liking it so far, with the ocassional failed download, so I'm thinking of getting the yearly plan.

 

I use a http://usenet-news.net block account as a back-up server to AW. $10 for 30GB with no expiration and SSL capable. 30 GB has lasted me over a year so far.

As an experiment with AstraWeb, I actually got slightly better speeds using a mix of SSL-EU, SSL, and SSL-US servers. Since they allow for 20 connections, I set 7 to EU with 6 each to the other two. Maybe something to try for those having speed issues when just using the SSL-US servers.

I have another question.  How do you update Sabnzbd, a new version is out, 0.5.5?

*******************************************

*** Upgrading from 0.5.x                ***

*******************************************

Stop SABnzbd.

Binary packages: install new version over the old one.

Source packages: First remove the old .py files!

Start SABnzbd.

 

When it says to remove the .py files, from where do they get deleted? I see them in the cherrypy folder as well as the sabnzbd folder.  Do I delete them from both locations?

 

Thanks!

I keep my sabnzbd.ini separate from my sabnzbd install, so when it comes time to upgrade, I just replace my sabnzbd directory entirely, and replace it with the new one.

I keep my sabnzbd.ini separate from my sabnzbd install, so when it comes time to upgrade, I just replace my sabnzbd directory entirely, and replace it with the new one.

Thanks! 

I install the dependencies package and then run SAB and SickBeard off the cache drive.

 

I created 2 directories at /mnt/cache/.SABnzbd and /mnt/cache/.SickBeard to hold the installs of these.

 

So, why do the SickBeard "Logs" and "cache" directories end up on the flash drive under the packages directory?

 

I just noticed I'm getting all these writes to the flash drive and I found those files were being created there. Oddly, there are also a couple of Logs and cache directories in both the .SickBeard  and .Sickbeard/autoProcessTV directories and those seem to contain the same file types from when I was first running it.

 

In SickBeard it says "All non-absolute folder locations are relative to /mnt/cache/.SickBeard" and the logging directory is set to "Logs" which should mean "/mnt/cache/.SickBeard/Logs". If I go look this directory exists and is not a link to the flash drive. I just find this very odd.

 

So, I put /mnt/cache/.SickBeard/Logs for the logging folder but how do I fix the cache folder so it writes to the cache drive and not the flash drive?

 

Peter

 

Not sure if it makes a difference....but I have the sabnzbd and sickbeard in the following location,  /mnt/cache/.custom

 

I install the dependencies package and then run SAB and SickBeard off the cache drive.

 

I created 2 directories at /mnt/cache/.SABnzbd and /mnt/cache/.SickBeard to hold the installs of these.

 

So, why do the SickBeard "Logs" and "cache" directories end up on the flash drive under the packages directory?

 

I just noticed I'm getting all these writes to the flash drive and I found those files were being created there. Oddly, there are also a couple of Logs and cache directories in both the .SickBeard  and .Sickbeard/autoProcessTV directories and those seem to contain the same file types from when I was first running it.

 

In SickBeard it says "All non-absolute folder locations are relative to /mnt/cache/.SickBeard" and the logging directory is set to "Logs" which should mean "/mnt/cache/.SickBeard/Logs". If I go look this directory exists and is not a link to the flash drive. I just find this very odd.

 

So, I put /mnt/cache/.SickBeard/Logs for the logging folder but how do I fix the cache folder so it writes to the cache drive and not the flash drive?

 

Peter

 

Wow! I just took a look in mine.  They are also in my flash drive.

I would do whatever needed to get the flash drive from being repeatedly written to.  All flash drives have a limit on the number of "writes" to them before they fail.  It can be as low as between 10,000 and 100,000 writes to a given sector on the flash drive.

 

If constantly writing to the same temporary file/directory on the flash drive, even if just once per minute, 10,000 writes would only take 7 days.

 

Joe L.

 

I edited the config.ini file in the sickbeard directory. There is a line 11 down "cache_dir = cache". I put that to the hard  SickBeard cache directory path and restarted SickBeard. It began using the cache directory on the disk instead of the flash drive. However, it put that line back to just "cache_dir = cache" again.

 

Very odd behaviour. I don't know why it would change the config file and I don't now why it decided to use the flash drive.

 

The 2nd line in the config file is the "log_dir = Logs" and that one will retain the complete path if you set it.

 

I deleted the directories and all on the flash drive. I'll keep checking to see if the cache one comes back.

 

I suggest anyone else running Sickbeard check this out.

 

Peter

 

I updated SickBeard and the config.ini file seems to be retaining both paths. I suggest anyone running SickBeard along side Sab check the flash drive and make sure it's not being used for the SickBeard cache and Logs.

 

Peter

 

Can anyone confirm the owner of the files that SABnzbd creates on their 5.0b2 array please?

 

I asked this a couple of pages back but it got lost in another conversation.  Any files I download are owned by "root" and not "nobody" and this creates issues with Samba shares.

 

There were a couple of solutions posted in the beta2 thread but I haven't got any of them working and I'd love to know if this problem affects everyone or if there is a root cause I should be looking for.

 

I don't have a cache drive so I was wondering if it was somehow due to me having the app running from a user share on the array.

I updated SickBeard and the config.ini file seems to be retaining both paths. I suggest anyone running SickBeard along side Sab check the flash drive and make sure it's not being used for the SickBeard cache and Logs.

 

Peter

 

 

This was happening to me and was creating all sorts of problems with my flash drive. I had to reformat it 5 times. I finally disabled CP and never had the problem since.

Got sab/sb setup on my cache drive using Flomaster's guide.  Just had to get the SB logs off my flash by using an absolute path in the config.

Looks like I'm getting issues with par2 not working properly.  Such a PITA