Hi guys

 

There are times where sab downloads an iso file. I extract only certain files. I mount the.iso from either my mac or pc. I then get the file I need and copy it to unraid folder. This takes a long time. It goes from unraid to mac back to unraid. Can take 40+ minutes.

 

Any ways to do this where file is mounted our extracted and copied to folder all on unraid. Command line for all this would be difficult.

 

I can't be only one doing this. How are you doing this?

 

Thanks

Don't know how to mount this in Linux (I agree there's got to be a way) ... but I'm wondering why it's taking 40 minutes.    How large is the ISO?    Even a 10GB ISO shouldn't take more than 2-3 minutes to copy from UnRAID to your PC.  The extraction of the file will be as fast on a PC/Mac as anywhere else; and copying the file(s) you're keeping back will be done at the write speed of the array (same as if it was done on the server).

 

Hi guys

 

There are times where sab downloads an iso file. I extract only certain files. I mount the.iso from either my mac or pc. I then get the file I need and copy it to unraid folder. This takes a long time. It goes from unraid to mac back to unraid. Can take 40+ minutes.

 

Any ways to do this where file is mounted our extracted and copied to folder all on unraid. Command line for all this would be difficult.

 

I can't be only one doing this. How are you doing this?

 

Thanks

With Unraid 6 and a virtual machine, you could mount the ISO from local storage, avoiding the need to copy the ISO over the network at all.

unMenu has a Share ISO function. Haven't tried it.

Thanks for the suggestions. will check into UNMenu, but Jonp I can't believe I didn't even think of a VM. Sometimes I really am amazed how dumb I am. I like this idea (not me being dumb   )

 

 

 

I read UNMenu runs on :8080 which sabnzb runs on. Can I changed the port for UNMENU?

 

Thanks again for all the help. I am thankful and appreciative of the Limetech Forum Community!

This works on unRaid 6 beta 14b so you might want to see if it also works on version 5.  Create a directory where you wish to mount the ISO file, eg

 

    mkdir /mnt/ISO

 

Then mount the ISO file onto this directory with, eg

 

  mount -o ro /mnt/Films/Airplane.iso /mnt/ISO

 

Now you can access the contents of the ISO file in the directory /mnt/ISO

 

When you are done use this command to unmount the ISO...

 

  unmount /mnt/ISO

That is what i was thinking. Write a script that searches the completed directory and if it finds an iso create new folder with exact name +M to designate mounted one. Mount iso extract to new M folder and then unmount and delete original folder. This should leave me with a new Folder called xxxxM with it contents being the extracted iso contents.