How do you guys set up your sickbeard/couchpotato to deal with the cache drive flaw. I have mine set up to download and extract on the cache drive that works great but once its done sickbear/couchpotato will move it to the correct share where all the rest of the tv show and movies are problem with this is when these shares are cached it moves the files below 50mb/s.

 

the movie/tv show still ends up on the same drive kinda dumb that it has to be so slow as its now reading from the cache drive and then writing it back on the same drive lol because i am telling it to move to /mnt/user/tv shows/ and that is cached. Couchpotato has setting to look for movies in a directory and then move to another this works great as its instant.

 

if you set "to" to /mnt/cache/Movies/ and "from" where its downloaded on the cache drive the move is instant vs if you told it to move it to /mnt/user/Movies a cached share even thought it ends up in the same place as /mnt/cache/Movies/ it kills the drives performance and takes a while for the move so anyone streaming will get skipping and horrible performance. This fixes Couchpotato as now post processing doesn't fail BUT you have to create the Movie folder on the cache drive everyday or else Couchpotato will fail to move it as it will say that the folder does not exist.

 

For sickbeard i don't know how to make a fix for that as it looks for tv shows in only one place and moves to the same place.

 

how do you guys set yours up?

 

thanks

the flaw is in your workflow.

 

in sb you define where the shows are when you add them... so 'TV/show name'. when sb post-processes the file it copies to that location.. if you use a cache drive it will store there but to sb and anything that is looking at the 'share' sees it as in the proper place. you do not copy to a direct mount.. that bypasses the cache drive. and you deff dont copy to the cache drive yourself. unraid handles that transparent to the user.