So if i set up jackett and radarr and sonarr with qbittorrent can I have it download to a share called downloads on my cache drive then manually move them to their respective shares Movies and TVShows using Krusader onto the array. I would rather just seed back from the cache drive until 1:1 is met and then delete from cache drive. I dont really want the downloads on my array and I am not really downloading all that much.  Or would it be better to have a unassigned drive to download to and seed from?

You can do it any way you want, it's your computer.

 

I probably wouldn't use krusader though, I'd just use SMB shares.

Look up spaceinvader one videos on youtube.  Yes you can automate the whole process.

1 hour ago, Energen said:

You can do it any way you want, it's your computer.

 

I probably wouldn't use krusader though, I'd just use SMB shares.

Ok so what is the difference between a share that is public and a SMB share?  I can see my shares in windows file expolrer under network but I havent created them under the SMB section of UnRaid.

SMB is another name for the standard Windows protocol for accessing shares over the network.    You set them up under the Shares tab on Unraid.

I am running into something strange now that I have remote torrent adder sending torrents to my qbittorrent web gui on my unraid server.  I changed the save path to: /mnt/user/Downloads/Incomplete, it starts to download but then tapers off in speed till it stalls out about 5 seconds.  If I change it back to the default location /config/qbittorent/downloads it starts up and grabs it in mere minutes.  I am not sure what is wrong here and why changing it to save to the share i want is killing it from downloading.  Anyone seen this before?

Containers are sort of like their own little computer, they don't have access to anything unless you map it in their set up configuration.

 

Read through this entire article.

https://wiki.unraid.net/What_are_the_host_volume_paths_and_the_container_paths

21 hours ago, jonathanm said:

Containers are sort of like their own little computer, they don't have access to anything unless you map it in their set up configuration.

 

Read through this entire article.

https://wiki.unraid.net/What_are_the_host_volume_paths_and_the_container_paths

I have read the article and I believe that my containers are pointed to the proper location for downloads to go.  /mnt/user/Downloads/Incomplete

 

and in the webui for qbittorrent I have the default path set as the same path.  

On 8/5/2020 at 4:09 AM, whitewraith said:

Or would it be better to have a unassigned drive to download to and seed from?

This is how I do it now, but come version 6.9 I'll transition this to a dedicated pool.

Once a download completes, it is moved by the torrent client to a completed folder, from there it is grabbed by my media searcher (such as Sonarr docker) and copied to media folder on array.

Edited August 6, 20205 yr by tjb_altf4

1 hour ago, whitewraith said:

I believe that my containers are pointed to the proper location for downloads to go.  /mnt/user/Downloads/Incomplete

So what is the internal container path that points to that host path?

14 minutes ago, jonathanm said:

So what is the internal container path that points to that host path?

So in the qbittorrent docker the host path is mnt/user/Downloads/Incomplete

the Container Path is /data

Is this what you are asking for?

3 minutes ago, whitewraith said:

the Container Path is /data

So, you are telling qbittorent to save the downloads to /data, correct?

I need to change the container path to the same path as the host right?

 

12 minutes ago, jonathanm said:

So, you are telling qbittorent to save the downloads to /data, correct?

Yeah but i want to tell it to save to /mnt/user/Downloads/Incomplete

 

34 minutes ago, whitewraith said:

Yeah but i want to tell it to save to /mnt/user/Downloads/Incomplete

 

You said that's where /data is mapped to, so job done.

/data inside the container IS /mnt/user/Downloads/Incomplete on the host.

Just to close the loop on this, you need to tell the application to use /data, which is the container path. The application can't know anything about the host path, /mnt/user/Downloads. All dockers work this way. Understanding volume mapping is 90% of knowing how to setup any docker.

13 hours ago, trurl said:

Just to close the loop on this, you need to tell the application to use /data, which is the container path. The application can't know anything about the host path, /mnt/user/Downloads. All dockers work this way. Understanding volume mapping is 90% of knowing how to setup any docker.

HOlY CRAP I GET IT!!!!!!  Thanks for helping me to understand!!!