January 13, 201610 yr Hi all! (Copy-paste this from my thread over at Reddit.) Got myself unRAID this weekend since my simple Windows file server decided to commit suicide with Windows Update. The main thing I used it for was torrenting and have Emby as my media server. After reading about unRAID and Docker, this seemed like an awesome substitute to Windows, but since I haven't used Linux in a while (and never been that familiar with it) some questions have dawned upon me. I transfered about 8 terabyte of content from my harddrives and have a media folder with movies and whatever. On Windows, I just point my downloads to whatever folder I would want to have my different media in and it would seed/upload from that folder. I learned that unRAID don't support hard links from Couchpotato and Sonarr so my question is how to structure this? I mean if I choose a movie with Couchpotato and it downloads the movie, process it and then move it to my movie folder, how can I continue to seed the download? It would be a shame if I have to copy everything and have two copies until I finished seeding it but I have no idea how to solve this since I want my movies, series, music etc in my media folder and not in my download folder. Do people who torrent "inside" of unRAID their files structured nice in seperate media folder or more like a download folder filled until they have completed seeding and then move it to media folders? I've tried looking at the unRAID, Sonarr, Couch and ruTorrent forum and found some info but nothing that seems to solve my problem. The automove/label/watch in ruTorrent seems to be brought up from time to time but I'm quite lost since coming from the simple point and click qBittorrent on Windows. Hope someone has some directions. Thanks
January 13, 201610 yr Easiest way would be in each container create a mapping for /mnt = /mnt/user/ Only problem is with your approach is it will stop disks spinning down I suspect....
January 13, 201610 yr Author Easiest way would be in each container create a mapping for /mnt = /mnt/user/ Only problem is with your approach is it will stop disks spinning down I suspect.... Thanks for your answer! I don't quite follow you though, will this solve my "move and seed"-problem or that I can choose my download location each time? Would really like to take advantage of Sonarr but I can't post process (unless I copy which waste space) if I want to keep seeding.
January 13, 201610 yr Author It will map the whole of your array to each container. Yeah, I'm with you so far. How can I use it to my advantage? Now I have /mnt/user/Download mapped to rTorrent, and also mnt/user/Media/Movies / TV mapped in Couchpotato/Sonarr.
January 13, 201610 yr It will map the whole of your array to each container. Yeah, I'm with you so far. How can I use it to my advantage? Now I have /mnt/user/Download mapped to rTorrent, and also mnt/user/Media/Movies / TV mapped in Couchpotato/Sonarr. Normally you map specific folders of your array to each container which is great and how I do it. So Plex has /tv mapped to /mnt/user/plextv for instance. And Kodi has /tv mapped to /mnt/user/koditv So what Plex thinks is /tv and what Kodi thinks is /tv are two different things.... If you map /mnt to each container as /mnt/user/ then each container has the same reference point and all your folder setups have the same structure. So now Plex thinks TV is in /mnt/user/plextv and Kodi thinks TV is in /mnt/user/koditv however if (hypothetically) those two were to communicate with each other about a folder they can both find it as the reference point is the same... The root of your array....
January 13, 201610 yr Author It will map the whole of your array to each container. Yeah, I'm with you so far. How can I use it to my advantage? Now I have /mnt/user/Download mapped to rTorrent, and also mnt/user/Media/Movies / TV mapped in Couchpotato/Sonarr. Normally you map specific folders of your array to each container which is great and how I do it. So Plex has /tv mapped to /mnt/user/plextv for instance. And Kodi has /tv mapped to /mnt/user/koditv So what Plex thinks is /tv and what Kodi thinks is /tv are two different things.... If you map /mnt to each container as /mnt/user/ then each container has the same reference point and all your folder setups have the same structure. So now Plex thinks TV is in /mnt/user/plextv and Kodi thinks TV is in /mnt/user/koditv however if (hypothetically) those two were to communicate with each other about a folder they can both find it as the reference point is the same... The root of your array.... Sorry, still trying to wrap my head around this. Right now Sonarr/Couch via rTorrent downloads to my /downloads which is mapped from /mnt/user/Download Sonarr then triggers post processing and copy the download to /tv which is mapped from /mnt/user/Media/TV Is there a way to do this wihout copy ---> There will only one copy of the file but still be able to seed and have Emby/Plex/Kodi scan/play the file from the post processed, well structured TV folder? Or do I have to keep one copy in Downloads and have Sonarr copy the file (so it "doubles" in size) to the TV folder and manually delete it after I finished seeding? This would be more important for Couchpotato because I want/have to seed those files much longer, in my own preference as long as I have the files on my server.
January 13, 201610 yr tbh as someone who doesn't torrent, I'm not exactly sure. But I can't see why if it worked in Windows with those apps why it would be any different in Unraid using /mnt = /mnt/user/
January 13, 201610 yr Author tbh as someone who doesn't torrent, I'm not exactly sure. But I can't see why if it worked in Windows with those apps why it would be any different in Unraid using /mnt = /mnt/user/ To be honest I never used Sonarr/Couch since I didn't had the option to hard link on Windows either due to Drivepool. But on Windows it was easier to just point and click on which folder I wanted to download to. Since r(u)Torrent is a Webui, it becomes more work to manually place the torrents in different folders and wanted to try to automate the search, download, post process and still keep my usual structure. The thing with torrents is that rTorrent has to have access to the file which downloads to /mnt/user/download. I would like Sonarr to post process the file into /mnt/user/Media/TV/Awesome Show/Season 2/Episode 1.mkv but I can't do it unless I copy it (I think), because I need rTorrent to access the file back in /mnt/user/download. People usually seem to do this with hard links but I learned the hard way that unRAID don't support it. Maybe I should ask how people organize their media using torrents on unRAID. But maybe you're right, just that I'm a beginner and don't understand the /mnt = /mnt/user concept. Wouldn't every Docker app still be using the same folders as they do now? /download = /mnt/user/download (in all three apps) /media = /mnt/user/media (in all three apps, but Sonarr has a TV folder and Couch has Movies)
January 13, 201610 yr The thing with torrents is that rTorrent has to have access to the file which downloads to /mnt/user/download. I would like Sonarr to post process the file into /mnt/user/Media/TV/Awesome Show/Season 2/Episode 1.mkv but I can't do it unless I copy it (I think), because I need rTorrent to access the file back in /mnt/user/download. People usually seem to do this with hard links but I learned the hard way that unRAID don't support it. OK now I kind of get it.... Yeah I see your problem....
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