Config for seeding torrents

[crazykidguy]

How is your setup configured if you're using a media server like Plex, but you're also trying to seed to trackers? 

 

An issue I'm running into is sometimes I need to rename things to have Plex pull in the correct metadata, but renaming anything will not allow me to seed the torrent. I also read about using symbolic/ hard links but my media is a user-share and I read that user-shares do not support hard links. 

 

Currently my setup is like this:

 

Media (Movie1, Movie2, Series3, Series4): User share

Seeding torrents (Movie1, Series3, Series4): Unassigned-disk 

 

However, this is obviously redundant and my unassigned-disk will eventually run out of space if I want to keep seeding more and more files. What is a better solution? 

[tjb_altf4]

My media and seeding are completely isolated, downloading and seeding on an unassigned drive and then Sickrage/CouchPotato picks up the completed torrent, copies and renames it to the array in my media files.

Just cull your seed list every few weeks/months as required to maintain free space.

 

I don't need my torrents to be parity protected and I don't want the IO burden on my cache (not to mention loss of fast storage), a spare HDD for torrents is a better solution IMHO.

[wgstarks]

11 hours ago, tjb_altf4 said:

My media and seeding are completely isolated, downloading and seeding on an unassigned drive and then Sickrage/CouchPotato picks up the completed torrent, copies and renames it to the array in my media files.

Just cull your seed list every few weeks/months as required to maintain free space.

 

I don't need my torrents to be parity protected and I don't want the IO burden on my cache (not to mention loss of fast storage), a spare HDD for torrents is a better solution IMHO.

+1

I’m using the same basic setup. My download client (binhex-delugevpn) has an app to automatically remove torrents based on seed time, disk free space and a few other variables so I don’t have to worry about the UD mount filling up. I imagine most other download clients have similar features.

[kizer]

I use a separate machine all together. I have a windows box that does my temporary seeding and my unRAID machine is never seen. 

[crazykidguy]

Didn't think of the fact that seeding on the array would require the disks to be spun up all the time. Good point. 

 

I would love to automatically remove the torrents based on time/size uploaded but maintaining ratio is hard for those niche/old torrents that no one else would download. I guess doing it manually on an unassigned drive is still the best solution currently short of a seedbox.