TRaSH Guides: Atomic-Moves, Hardlinks & Media Automation - Why Use

[@ff-nr9jx]

One key principal Id like to share with anyone struggling to get this to work with each of the sabnzb, radarr and sonarr is ALL OF YOUR /DATA DIRECTORIES SHOULD BE THE SAME in docker. If they arent the same then you are screwing something up. The shorter the directory the more access the docker apps have to your files. So keep the docker directories SHORT and then give the apps access inside the app. Good luck! Its worth it when you finally understand this. I spent like 60 hours just because there is old info and disinfo all over the place. So starting with this video is a great step forward. THANKS AGAIN!

[@RafaelSilva-yv3oh]

This is the most important thing here, took me a while until this clicked for me and I figured it out, wish I had found this video before that headache lol!

[@Mert-fw9fs]

you cant image how long this took me to finally realize. Never understood why my *arr apps where not working. First time in a while where yt really would be faster than just googling info together. I learned my lesson for next time…

[@usshauler]

Excellent review. Very thorough and most importantly you showed the actual folder mappings from beginning to end for everyone. This is something that should always be done in tutorials for beginners. Thank you for the great review and hope to see more for UnRAID. I would also like you to add NZBGet to this portion of the video or a follow-up, thanks.

[@IBRACORP]

Thank you mate I'm glad you enjoyed the content appreciate the feedback. We'll keep working at helping everyone :)

[@kristopherdecaigny8211]

Agreed it would have been beneficial to have SABnzbd or NZBGet as well. Regardless a great video !

[@pitor87]

Great presentation. I'm new to unraid, and after watching a couple of videos from you and spaceinvader1, I'm up and running!

[@shroomzzz]

I think you missed the part about the category paths within the qbit client. Ex: docker path is /data/torrents then qbit category for 'tv' is data/torrents/tv etc

[@whyktor7]

How does one do this?

[@genghistron1858]

@@whyktor7S Seeing as how I just went through this mess, Here's the steps: (note using vuetorrent UI) 1. Go to settings 2. Under saving management set default torrent management mode to AUTOMATIC 3. go to tags & categories 4. for each category set up, select the destination folder ONLY and not the full path since it's already defined. Your path simply needs to be "movies" or "tv." If you put the full path it will create a new directory with sub directories and finally the target folder, which makes a mess.

[@freddyevangelista6503]

@@genghistron1858 coming in clutch with this nugget of advice. Thank you internet stranger!

[@haydenchapman3431]

@@genghistron1858 Thank good dude. This has done my head in the last couple of hours trying to figure this out. Finally, thank you.

[@IBRACORP]

Thanks for watching! What do you think about hardlinks and atomic moving? Will you change your setup? Let us know! If you want to support us please read the description, as well as credits to the community members for this video. 😎 EDIT: Hi guys! Thank you for watching. There is an additional step I missed and I apologize. In the tags/categories section in Qbit torrent, you should set the path also! So where you have the Radarr tag, add the path to the folder you want them to save in as well. Same for Sonarr. For example /data/media/torrents/tv

[@BB-Rareburto]

I read Trashes Guide about a month ago. (same as Servarr guide, which is like an official guide, i think?). And it sounded better than all the prior methods I saw on various youtubes. I guess by having all media under one main share (or folder), then files moved within that share are super efficient because they don't really move - they just get new path metadata attached. I guess it cannot do that if the files moves across to a different share - but I don't understand why not, or maybe i got it all wrong. Anyway, I was sold on Trashes guide. I wanted a video that used Trashes guide, and that was prescriptive, so that I can just follow directions (and not have to understand too much). Your video came just in time, and seems to be the ONLY one that uses Trashes guide. I used it, and I THANK YOU, sincerely. Wow, your video editing is tight and professional. Thank heaven for the pause button so I can catch up with you. THANK YOU. There is still a ton more I need help with, so if this is popular, I hope to see more from you for all the settings in each of those containers.

[@IBRACORP]

Thank you mate I really appreciate that. So glad to hear you're enjoying my work and TRaSHs guide. He's done some amazing work and deserves credit. Plenty more where that came from so stay tuned 🙂

[@maknilsin]

Sorry mate - what do you mean by add /data/media/torrents/sonarr - is this as an additional category? Do you need to put similar mapping into Sonarr?

[@IBRACORP]

Sorry that's a typo! Good pickup. The example should read (for TV): /data/media/torrents/tv For movies: /data/media/torrents/movies

[@AJxB]

@@IBRACORP /data/media/torrents/movies or just /data/torrents/movies? because we never created a /data/media/torrents/etc. folder, or did I mess something up?

[@vazquezjm]

Finally an EXCELLENT guided setup for Media Server setup for Arrs!! 👏👏

[@electricjuice5627]

Thank you Trash Ibracorp. Can't believe i used to expend so much manual labour foraging the web to maintain my media. Also huge respect to the developers!

[@shanewilliams2956]

I love this video. Thank you so much for making this. This was exactly what I needed. Keep up the great work!

[@paulroemer5992]

Another great tutorial and done well. Thanks for taking the time to make these videos as I know they take a fair amount of time. It's a good thing we can pause and re-run sections as you do go over things quickly and I'm not complaining. It's better to get the completeness rather that briefness. Thanks again.

[@IBRACORP]

Thanks Paul appreciate the feedback. Yeah look have been quicker lately and that also happens ok editing. Still working on the pacing but I hope it's still easy to follow. Cheers

[@dylanhunter5414]

I fianlly re-built my unraid server, so excited to binge watch and do it properly from the get go with your guides.

[@IBRACORP]

Pleasure to help you out, good luck!

[@BrentWoodward]

Mate you're a deadset legend for making this video. Just followed it and now my server is finally working the way I want it to! Thanks very much.

[@IBRACORP]

Cheers Brent, enjoy your little ripper mate! Thanks for watching

[@labatomi]

Jesus dude thank you so much for this video. I just got my unraid setup and was going crazy on how to set this up. Thank you!!

[@sinxcosx1337]

Thank you for a great guide, truly made it possible for me to set up with little to no previous knowledge of unraid. However, I had massive problems with my Plex remote access. I got a errors regarding to uPnP/NAT, which I know nothing about. Looked for solutions online and tried a bunch of stuff. Portforwarding gave me an indirect connection in Plex, enable/disable uPnP in my router changed nothing. What eventually solved it was to switch the Plex docker settings from my docker network ("Ibraproxy" in this video), to "Host". That instantly gave me a direct connection to all my devices, both in my home and outside. So to all you noobs out there - try that :)

[@GgozzyG]

Thanks for this - I had the same issue. I felt like the cause was setting the custom docker network as the network type, not sure why its working for some and not for us.

[@garygriffiths2487]

Best video to date this mate a cracking way to tidy up my unbraid shares. Some privacy tie in would make it perfect.

[@IBRACORP]

Absolutely

[@silvacrest11]

I cant believe how easy this is compared to the synology version, I'm never going back to xpenology, thanks

[@IAmatVictoriaCuramI]

Awesome videos. I have watched many of them and I appreciate the level of detail you use as it has helped me gain a better understanding. I have partially implemented but I don't give the *arrs direct access to my media storage still. I don't know why but I have a hard time allowing dockers delete access. I don't fully trust them yet. :) Another method if you don't want to "move" files when changing where they are located is in the Settings>SMB>SMB Extras. You can configure it to export shares as a singular virtual share so that when you drag drop in Windows, it's not using the copy/paste functionality as it perceives all items to be on the same exported SMB share. As long as you aren't moving items from one physical disk to another on unraid (i.e if tv shows are on disk 1 and movies are on disk 2 exclusively and you move the file between them) then it won't actually move the file, it will just change the logical drive the file is associated with. From Windows you just need to access the "unraid" (or whatever you name it) share and then used the underlying folders. Also note that if you are utilizing a cache drive, it will still use the mover array operation as you have it scheduled. Here is mine as an example: [unraid] path = /mnt/user comment = browseable = yes valid users = [user name here, preferably your Windows logon for ease of use] write list = [user name here, preferably your Windows logon for ease of use] vfs objects = #unassigned_devices_start #Unassigned devices share includes include = /tmp/unassigned.devices/smb-settings.conf #unassigned_devices_end #vfs_recycle_start #Recycle bin configuration [global] syslog only = Yes syslog = 0 logging = 0 log level = 0 vfs:0 #vfs_recycle_end

[@IBRACORP]

This is an excellent point and one I was taught not long ago regarding the SMB share. Thank you for the detailed comment and glad you're enjoying our work 🙂

[@addilation]

hey just wanted to say thank you for doing this, it was easy to follow and made this process super easy. 10/10. keep up the amazing work!

[@IBRACORP]

Really appreciate that thank you 🙂

[@Be3b4theyrenot]

honestly the best guide out there. been struggling for days. THANKS !

[@IBRACORP]

That's what we like to hear!

[@rapha5586]

had the same issue with firefox, man you saved me so much hassel to find it out. thank you so very much!

[@IBRACORP]

That's what we like to hear 🙂

[@TheExoticBeard]

People who got the issue of Sonarr not adding /data/media/tv go and fix permission issues is to use Tools->New Permissions tool. .. just select other share folder ( data ) don't select any disk and click start

[@coolcatdom]

Thanks for posting this tip. It saved me some frustration!

[@sandspatel]

Nice vid catalogue you're doing man just wanted to help by highlighting you missed two big steps in this video i.e. ensuring the mappings are correct so sonarr can move the torrent dockers output files and how to enable deletion of source files. Those two things are huge to overall automation and not obvious.

[@IBRACORP]

Thanks Sandeep appreciate it. Yeah you are definitely correct! I added it to my pinned comment shortly after uploading. Thanks for watching!

[@kaitoushadow]

Thanks alot for the information! This was super helpful in getting me setup!

[@Diviance]

Prowlarr is a much better replacement for Jackett. You can connect it to your "Arr" instances and it will add in the indexers itself rather than you needing to do it manually.

[@IBRACORP]

Absolutely, we already covered Prowlarr in a video right here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pIHQZqODm9BkhaM 🙂

[@Diviance]

@@IBRACORP Good. I am not surprised at all. It is an excellent piece of software. I didn't notice it when I did a brief scan of your videos. But hey, now it is more visible to others who might find it useful, so win win I guess haha.

[@drumking53]

Thank you for providing this great content. I did not notice that you used a vpn. Is it that I missed it? Can you please provide additional info on how and what vpn would be best for this setup? It would be greatly appreciated.

[@cavisualproductions4406]

This is a great video and a great tutorial on creating the media shares. I've never used any of the *arr programs but I usually use Emby for most of my media. However I want to create a Windows VM in order to put on JRiver as a server for my music collection. Getting the paths right on the server will help a great deal in organization for the Dockers.

[@Glasti]

Oi mate, the ozzy slang is great! Great video!

[@IBRACORP]

Thanks mate! Never know what it sounds like to people outside Australia haha

[@Instantd]

@@IBRACORP you're the crocodile dundee of homelabbing :D

[@IBRACORP]

Proud to be put up there with the big guns down under 😎

[@KS-wr8ub]

@IBRACORP, maybe I've misunderstood something here.. But this setup makes me end up seeding the Linux ISOs from the array (!) instead of from my cache? Because Mover moves all still seeding torrents that doesn't, at the time Mover runs, have traffic on them to the array. Or have I missed something? Thanks for a great video as always!

[@dirty_mike]

Would this work with a pre-existing install? I'd like to change all my dockers over but don't want to have to start over. I assume all of my media would be preserved as well? Great vid

[@jakesmith-o6d]

i would love to know this as well. my thoughts, if anything id start a new share specifically for the arr and just add that to my current plex set up. Would love to hear how you made this work

[@eduard0321123]

Hey, great work on the video! this kind of video helps ALOT. I'm considering a switch to this setup, and really like your insights, especially since you've experienced both. Can you share which one you opted for and why it resonated with you more? Your perspective would be immensely helpful. Thanks!

[@nastyanon4122]

Thanks for all that you're doing my man. I'm new to Unraid and Linux file systems. Your videos are invaluable for a newb. I ended up going with qbittorrentvpn as I couldn't seem to get my PIA proxy to work on the other container. Super easy to setup, but I can't for the life of me figure out how to add that sweet VueTorrent UI.

[@IBRACORP]

Welcome aboard! Glad you're part of the team and enjoying the content mate :)

[@nastyanon4122]

@@IBRACORP I finally got sonarr and a client running through a VPN, but I can't seem to locate the actual completed downloads. I think I've probably got 80GB of orphaned files somewhere, but I can't find em and they're not in the library. Hot mess over here right now. 😩

[@nastyanon4122]

Whew, found em in /mnt/user/data/cache. This stuff is definitely not for people that are not tech savvy. Now to get autoscan working...:P

[@GaMeOvErRules]

I am confused on the transcode. I understand you set the /mnt/user/appdata/plex/transcode folder. Is that folder where transcodes are saved when you have Plex generate and save a media file at a certain resolution? In my new build I want 4K content, but I am the only one who has a 4K TV so the handful of people I let use my server they will be causing the server to transcode the media. Does that file come into play?

[@Michael-bf4ud]

Great video! Quick question... I set up nginx and cloudflare as per your recent video. Everything works no problem. Some Redditors have advised that plex streams should not be sent through Cloudflare... so I disabled the 'proxy' and am just using it for DNS via the cloudflare website. Is disabling the proxy good enough to work with their TOS of no video streams?

[@Glasti]

Yes it is fine

[@IBRACORP]

Well that depends. Are you talking about accessing a URL just for Plex? Like plex.mydomain.tld? Because everything else is going through Plex servers anyway right? I don't think it has anything to do with CloudFlare

[@evilfootware]

Great video, thumbs up! Would you be able to do a video on setting this type of media automation on a seedbox?

[@IBRACORP]

Great suggestion! I will look into and see what I can do Kevin

[@HenrikCaspersen]

@@IBRACORP I would also really like this video and maybe include how to use seedsync on unraid or setup rsync?

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

This was absolutely an incredible episode! So much great information! You need to contact me, and we need to do a collaboration on this stuff and cover it all regardless of what the user is using to run it all. maybe we can do a LiveStream! absolutely excellent!

[@IBRACORP]

I would absolutely love too! I'll message soon and we can work something out my friend :)

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

@@IBRACORP looking forward to it.

[@IBRACORP]

What's the best way to contact you mate? Email?

[@IBRACORP]

KZbin removed the comment but I got it from the preview in notifications. Email sent :)

[@MrJsii69]

I can't help but laugh. This was a good video but the files from Radarr and Sonarr were not moving to the final directory. Being frustrated over the last couple of days I've been up for the last 26hrs until I figured it out with the missing path outside of docker container. I came back here to write about it but I see that has already been addressed. I watched your video on my tv where the comments were not being shown!!! Anyway glad it's fixed now. I had it working before viewing the video except it was copying the files instead of moving and so each file would take about 5-10 min to move to the final directory, but now it works instantly. I changed my entire file structure and naming to match the video and when it all stopped working I was losing it. Thank God it all works now! Now I can go to sleep.

[@IBRACORP]

Sleep well sweet Prince. You will never need to worry about waiting for copies again. (And sorry it took a while to find the answer outside the video!)

[@metalor696]

This is incredibly helpful. Thanks heaps, mate!

[@IBRACORP]

You're welcome!

[@TCW-TECH]

@ibracorp. Hi man, thanks for the good tutorial, I was wondering how you managed to use a Scandisk 3.2Gen1 USB as your boot device? I have the exact same 16GB version and on the flash create wizard it just says device not supported. Is it that my USB is too small (GB)? or do you have some kind of workaround?

[@zsoltsuhajda83]

I cannot figure out the following: so there are 2 root folders for radarr and 2 for sonarr, movies, kids movies & series, kids series. These categories have created in qBit, but how can I indicate to sonarr and radarr, to not to put all in radarr & tv-sonarr default categories. Is it possible or it is valid for 1-1 folders only?

[@IBRACORP]

If you join our discord there will be other community members who may be able to help you with that

[@shhhpark]

thanks for the help, i'm kind of lost on why you break out the torrents folder? How do you get the download client to place the completed files in a specific folder within the torrents folder?

[@Dr-AK]

Thank you so much for this video and thanks for trash guides. I am wonderings what is the benefit of doing the ibracorpproxy network? Should I be adding that to my current setup. The files systems is working great also. so glad I found this video early in my unraid build. Atomic linking sounds like it is done automatically once all these docker containers are setup? Thank again for all your videos and instructions

[@RyanAlexander87]

In my setup this didn't work properly until adding remote path mappings in the download clients part of sonarr - am I the only one? Didn't see this in the video.

[@bobloblaw3004]

So am i to put categories under the tv folder such as tvkids or tvcartoons, tvsports or are they supposed to be at the same level as the first tv show folder like music and movies? Thanks

[@stonepn]

Thank you so much for making this! I followed everything to a T, but for some reason my sonarr downloads stay in usenet/tv and Plex doesn't find them in the correct library. I feel like when I created the directories in the share (media / usenet) they are separate entities and Plex is looking in a folder for the shows but they haven't been moved there. Does that make sense? What am I missing?

[@IBRACORP]

Have you checked your Sonarr settings to ensure downloading handling is enabled? Check Settings > Download Clients > Completed Download Handling. Also ensure you have mapped Plex to look in the same share of /data/media in the container template then in the libraries inside Plex.

[@blade316_]

Another helpful video mate, kickin goals! … I’m a long term UnRAID user/dinosaur ;) … since v4, and I’ve had many many variations along the way of how my media automation is set up … I’ve tried using hard linking before, however it was a clusterf$&k … but maybe that was just at that time and the *darrs and corresponding download apps just weren’t quite polished enough … I don’t even wanna think how many hours of my life I wasted writing custom scripts to try and get proper automated downloads and media management working back then haha 😂 … so like you, for a long time, I’ve been running standard separate shares for downloads, movies, tv, music etc Always keen to try new (and old) ideas though! 😊 Just to confirm, I don’t believe the container paths MUST be a root folder like /data and then with the corresponding is folders for the different items … I think passing multiple mappings in the containers will also work the same like /movies /tv /music … as long as the mappings for the downloaders and the *darrs are the same, then you don’t need to worry about remote host shares stuff in the *darrs. However, in addition, there is valid reasons for different root shares to be set up for organising your media e.g /downloads /movies /tv … and one of the main ones is split level folder management and also drive inclusion and exclusion … having everything in a data share prevents the ability to use different split level folders setting for say /movies with 2 levels, and /tv and /music with 3 levels. Pros and cons either way, so it’s just whatever works best for people’s own use case really. Side note: good to see another Aussie kickin goals … I’m in brissy, whereabouts are you? … feel free to PM me if you feel like collab 👍🏼

[@IBRACORP]

Cheers mate! Excellent write up. Yeah would love to why not, I'm based in Melbourne!

[@roberthill377]

Great video but how do you setup a VPN to use with this setup?

[@shootinputin6332]

Great tutorial. But, really, for us Aussies, uploads speeds are terrible. I am on 1000/50 FTTP. I would have to pay $10 a day to get 1000/400. For us, it is better to have a remote dedicated server for the .arrs and downloaders. With an UnRaid storage box, having multiple shares allows finer control of where it goes on cache, which disk each media type goes to, and how each media type fills the disk. Having it just on one share does not allow this. Maybe one day we'll get there as a country.

[@VanFS3K]

I'm trying to convert my old file structure to the new one. Trash Guides seems to have left out what do with the nzbget items. It says point it to the usenet folder, so I copied all of the old nzbget to the usenet folder (completed, intermediate, queue, ...). seems to clutter up that folder. Im thinking they missed a step

[@Majestic62]

this has been a massive help really appreciate it

[@IBRACORP]

My pleasure thanks for watching Wayne!

[@IShaderI]

Whats the best practice if I had a scrubby home lab (that diead) before, so I have already a decent amount of data? Should I just stick the files in media? Or would that break things? I suppose I should follow the import process? If all the starr apps are doing the linking and such... But if I am not downloading data, because its already downloaded, maybe it doesn't matter at all

[@josopus]

Did you set plex to transcode on the SSD? Wouldn't that generate a lot of read/writes unnecessarily?

[@IBRACORP]

You are correct and in hindsight I would change it. GilbN has actually informed me of a way to map it to RAM so it never touches a disk: Hot tip when it comes to transcoding. If you set the transcode path to /dev/shm:/container_path and use /container_path in plex it will transcode directly to RAM and save your cache some writes /dev/shm will be half of your availble RAM

[@SkaterKonks]

@@IBRACORP On the unraid forum they recommend mapping to /tmp rather than /dev/shm

[@Black1ce8]

How do I know if my files are hardlinked or not? I went Terminal, Cdd to the /data/torrents folder, and it shows up as "1" instead of "2" and another Trash guide says that means they aren't hard linked.

[@lebanesepat]

Does setting it up this way prevent the array from spinning up? Im trying to reduce disk spin up as as much as possible.

[@IBRACORP]

It definitely reduces the read writes by huge amount because everything is handled instantly within the same share. Further, since it's most related to when content is added, all this operations typically start on your cache before reaching the array

[@akurenda1985]

Since this is using hard links, would backing up the media directories actually back up the data? Or would you have to back up the entire /data folder in order to preserve the hard links?

[@James-dg8oz]

Thanks for your video. It's very helpful as a first time user. I have a dumb question. I've read that hardlinks does not work across filesystems and has to live on one volume/disk.. But it seems your share is using all disks pooled. This seems contradictory, what am I missing? Does one filesystem really mean one single share? Thanks.

[@IBRACORP]

That is incorrect. It just has to be one share, as they disks are irrelevant since the 'directory' is still one location for the front as a share. Disks are not seen as seperate, Unraid handles that behind the scenes. Once you change to this layout you will notice how superior it is to other methods shown online or on KZbin

[@Artslover2u]

I think its time you updated with the latest version of Unraid a lot has changed in 2 years.

[@IBRACORP]

Agreed!

[@Fanaleds-software]

Is there a reason why someone would NOT use this? It does sound great, however I am happy with my current setup with separate shares for Series/Movies/other downloads. Some shares have different security settings as who can do what. It seems like I will lose that? How would I have to do this via the CLI? Also, would I be able to view the same files in the same places on all 3 subfolders? For example, when I go to my shares via Samba, would I have to search a specific movie in each subfolder or can I see everything in one place? I guess that's the point of this. When I split my series and movies on two disks, would I also have faster data copies? That's what I have on my old Synology setup, and that seems to work great as well.

[@Ricofizz]

One case I'm thinking of is the ability to split directories between drives as needed. Say you have the following: /data/media/tv/series/episode.mkv /data/movies/movie.mkv You wouldn't be able to split the /data directory levels the same way so say you're binge watching a tv series which has multiple episodes on different drives, it would have to spin up multiple drives versus a single drive which can have increased power usage and wear on all your drives.

[@AceBoy2099]

I gotta go over this and do it, probably should have done this from the start but didn't know about it. Any videos to integrate this with tdarr (or the like, and using deluge) too? I gotta look into that too. Lol I've done this as an "after the fact" Setup, but it is still duplicating the downloads (torrent and media folders), any clue what I may have done wrong? I know it's hard to tell with out info or pics so just ask and when I can ill respond with the info.

[@spidaweb-u8f]

Q. When you use your nettype as ibaproxy. how do you also enable vpn for all containers on that network type? ie lets say you're using glutenvpn .... that part eludes me in the unraid setup.

[@ikkuranus]

jackett seems to be the missing piece as to why I never was able to set sonarr up. I tried setting it up directly using the built in rss indexer and that was a loss cause since you can't just manually add torrents to test it.

[@IBRACORP]

Definitely so I'm glad it's helped you out

[@GeorgeWBush-op5rv]

Nicely done. You should do another one using seedboxes.

[@IBRACORP]

Good idea! It's on the list

[@Mike_v_E]

What is the reason to put the data folder on the cache pool, which I assume is SSD? Wouldn't it be better to put the data folder on an HDD since it includes media files?

[@matthewcarew2933]

I'm loving this setup so far. For you SABnzbd people, what are you setting your temporary download folder to?

[@Vipermo]

did you get it working mate as i couldnt get sab to work but nzbget i did

[@matthewcarew2933]

@@Vipermo I did. No issues these past few months

[@rolandomorales9007]

Great tutorial! thanks for putting this together. Is there a way to search titles in Spanish in sonarr and radarr? I followed your videos and installed radarr, sonarr and prowlarr and they work fantastic with english titles but when I try yo find a movie in Spanish, I am not able to. Can you give a hint about how to solve it ?

Hey Ibracorp; Great video again, I'd love to change my current setup (because now that i've seen this it's clear that mine is overly comlicated), but not so sure how to transistion between the 2. My guess, setting all dockers up and once all downloading and and playing is working moving my existing movies over to the new folder...

[@Glasti]

You can use your existing dockers and just add/change the new paths to it.. Just make sure in the Arr's that you change the paths of your library files as well. that is how i have done it.

[@IBRACORP]

Han has answered it here so thanks for that. I'll also add a comment from Redditor ShaKsKreedz: Good video mate! To add to this-- A lot of people have a "Media" share and a "downloads" share. If you dont want to go out and rename your shares you can just add your downloads folder tp your media share and have everything mapped to that. For example radarr will be -> /data/ - /mnt/users/Media/ torrent client will be -> /data/torrents/ - /mnt/user/Media/torrents/

[@PsYc3]

Couldn't you just rename your main share instead of copying and move some folders about

[@GuestStarMas]

Thanks for the great video - I'm having some issues though. We set a new path /data for qbittorent pointing to /mnt/user/data/torrents and then in the settings we put /data/torrents which endup downloading files into /mnt/user/data/torrents/torrents Apart from this, all good 👍

[@AmaliePreecha]

so i think im missing something, in the torrent settings i have set the save path to media/movies so it would place the finished video in the media/movies folder. but every guide says to link it to torrents/movies. but if i set the root folder in radarr to media/movies. how does the saved video end up there? i have set use hardlinks in the radarr settings too, but i think im misunderstanding the functionality, please someone explain to me

[@TheJediBendu]

Around 8:55 you add define a custom network type "ibraproxy" - but what's the purpose of this over just using Bridge?

[@IBRACORP]

So that you can refer to other containers using their container names (rather than IPs) and having them semi isolated on their own network too.

[@strubdog]

Following this guide to a "T" but I'm having trouble with Radarr importing the downloads from qtbittorent. Not sure what I'm doing wrong.

[@elcoyote189]

Dude you vids rock... Question in your setup does it place all the movies in the root folder of /data/movies/ or does it do subfolders on my side it is not doing subfolders

[@IBRACORP]

Cheers Marvin! It does subfolders mate, which I think if I remember correctly is a setting in Radarr? There is a step I had to do after in Radarr in the import screen that allows you to map all the folder for existing stuff

[@freakyweirdo92]

great guide as always. i have 1 question regarding the mover. files that are seeding will not be move by the mover. is there a way to stop the qbit docker while the mover is running? if possible i dont want to add ratios as i'm planning to let it seed for as long as i can. thanks!

[@IBRACORP]

The mover won't move anything which is currently in use, such as seeding

[@freakyweirdo92]

@@IBRACORP yeah. there isnt a way to automatically stop the docker ( qbitorrent ) before mover starts and start it back after mover ends?

[@IBRACORP]

Hmm good question mate. Being completely honest I don't know myself but someone in the discord may know

[@perkisize]

How doable is it to do this on an existing configuration that is setup using the "legacy" share setup?

[@sahidb.7419]

wondering if the hardlinking would still work having tdarr converting the files and replacing the originals. if a torrent has a h264 file and tdarr converts it to h265, what happens to the hardlink torrent for seeding?

[@lule642]

Is there a way to hardlink already downloaded movies and shows? because for me radarr/sonarr are creating folders of already existing movies which causes duplicates.

[@dpsps5776]

Thanks great video! Do you think it's possible to push the exit node connection through a VPN. I'd like my remotely connected machines to pass their traffic through unraid which in turn passes it through a vpn.

[@breaky011]

Do you have another guide detailing the separate custom network each container is set to? (Ibraproxy in your example). I just haven't gotten my head around how that works / why it is necessary yet!

[@IBRACORP]

Haven't done one in detail yet but have a one minute one to help you set it up

[@breaky011]

@@IBRACORP Found a more detailed mention of it in another one of your vids so thankfully all set, cheers

[@jacenmiller6504]

@@breaky011 which one is it, if you can point me there? I am about to go through this setup and want make sure I have everything dialed in up front.

[@breaky011]

@@jacenmiller6504 Sorry it's been a long time and I've watched most of this channel's vids so a history search isn't that helpful. Best I can say is filter for anything 2 years old or older from this channel and start there.

[@95lulu59]

At 16:39 Why there are no paths defined? Im just starting with this and its a bit confusing and i saw that my download went through however: The download should stand in Data\torrents\tv But it got downloaded in Data\torrents\(downloaded torrent folder) The hardlink it sits where its supposed to.. Data\media\tv\(donwloaded torrent folder hardlink)

[@Dhajze]

I figured it out ​ @IBRACORP video is just not accurate. There is no way what he had done in the video would work. He had addressed one miss via comments - adding the path to the category (category tv-radarr, add path below it "/data/torrents/tv". But thing that is biting everyone here is this: in qBit, Settings->Downloads, "Saving Management", set "Default Torrent Management Mode" drop down to "Automatic". In his video it is clearly showing "Manual" which would never work. Cheers.

[@mattwells5625]

Great video! How about a video on bitwarden with proxy manager and a domain?

[@IBRACORP]

Nice one! Yeah I have it working and it's on the list to do :) cheers for the suggestion Matt

[@lorddread22]

question about vpn on this setup would you still use the same network ie ibraproxy or would the setup be different somehow? I would want torrents and usenet through vpn but possibly the arr's to use proxy like iphole or similar so would they still be setup like this using the same ibraproxy network or what? Thanks in advance...

[@159username]

Hi, I was following the guide and set up everything and everything works. But for some reason, torrents are not being sent to data/torrents/movies and music, only /tv works, and everything else lands in /torrents. And it also doesn't get deleted after completion. Any idea why that might happen?

[@Dhajze]

I figured it out ​ @IBRACORP video is just not accurate. There is no way what he had done in the video would work. He had addressed one miss via comments - adding the path to the category (category tv-radarr, add path below it "/data/torrents/tv". But thing that is biting everyone here is this: in qBit, Settings->Downloads, "Saving Management", set "Default Torrent Management Mode" drop down to "Automatic". In his video it is clearly showing "Manual" which would never work. Cheers.

[@BEANZ6666]

hello i am wondering how do i delete custom networks. i have made a few custom networks but now i don't use those anymore and would like to remove then from the drop down. i have stopped the docker in settings and went to network settings but it won't let me delete the networks on the routing table. any help or links would be great thanks

[@VanFS3K]

Whats the point of making the media folders in the Usenet folder? I use usenet, but it doesnt use those media folders

[@AceBoy2099]

Im doing this now, but how do i "root" lidarr and readarr? I dont see that option in the program itself.

[@sinhalo]

Just curious I have had my sonar radarr, RPM, ombi, delugevpn, etc on my own network so they can talk to each other and works great for about a year. I noticed my Plex is on Host network. Probably some guide I followed from space invaders. Any reason to change it the custom network?

[@IBRACORP]

Plex can stay as running on host there's no issues with that

[@dangitZIN]

is the only option to have multiple drives for data? Because want I wanted to do was set each hard drive for specific media i.e. anime, tv, movies. I was about to go with SpaceInvador One's method, but I would like to have sonarr and radarr properly working with hardlinks.

[@IBRACORP]

Can I ask why you would want all of one media on one disk?

[@dangitZIN]

@@IBRACORP basically continuity of what I have from my PC. I have about 2tb of Anime on one drive and few tv series with it and about 4tbs of solely movies on another. I have way more anime than movies, but the movie files range between 30-60GB. I mostly will be watching anime since there are always on going episodes and I’d rather have that only one drive spinning cause of the heavy r/w usage vs having all my drives spinning. I definitely understand the way this is set up is great for set it and forget it and nearly completely automated, but I’ve also seen that the way high-water works is a series my get split up if there’s more room on another disk? Or am I misunderstanding here? I really want to keep how I organize my media and also trying to avoid spinning up multiple drives often. I’ve only had my system ready for 2 days, but I haven’t don’t anything yet. I want it to be as efficient and optimized as possible before I start dumping data in there and building up my library some more. I guess chalk it down to ocd? Lol

[@IBRACORP]

I guess it depends if you want to wear out one disk or make it even across multiple. You allow it divide by season or by show for example across multiple disks. Personal preference I guess mate

[@uno21858]

If I do the installation from that repository on the root files when I added it shows me that I have 10gb but if use binhex sonarr it appears me the complete drive but the torrent never go to the downloaded I installed deluge. From the first repository I can download things but I have 10gb The other it appears me the full array but I can’t download So what I can do Sorry for bad English

[@juan11perez]

Thank you for the tutorial; set up as instructed and i get the hard link to /data/media/movies for instance. However, when i look at the torrents folder, the download is not going into /data/torrents/movies. it stays in /data/torrents. perhaps there's an additional step for qbittorrent? Also, how do you import the existing library whilst creating the hardlink. There's the import library selection, but it doesn't have the hard-link option.

[@IBRACORP]

Hi Juan! Thanks for watching. So yes there is an additional step I missed and I apologize. In the tags/categories section in Qbit torrent, you should set the path also! So where you have the Radarr tag, add the path to the folder as well. Same for Sonarr. As for the hardlink option, have you set the view to advanced in Sonarr/Radarr? I found that by default option is checked anyway but best to be sure

[@juan11perez]

@@IBRACORP thank you very much. That works for the torrent folder assignment. For the import, I think it's not easy. Only way I've been able to do it is via manual import, which does have a hard-link option. If the user has a big collection, that's not viable

[@IBRACORP]

I just transferred the files using Krusader and ran a scan in Sonarr and radarr. Then using the map folders option

[@AlexanderWerginz]

@@juan11perez Which import are you talking about ? Import your existing media library ? or imports from your download library ?

[@kaelanbirks8780]

@@IBRACORP same problem here, would you just do /tv since it is already mapped to /data/torrents? Thanks!

[@Brian.M]

When creating subdirectories under /data it's okay to make as many directories as needed right? Like I could make /data/media/audiobooks and more?

[@IBRACORP]

Yes of course, you can set up your library how you want to within that as long as you mount all your container to the same root folder.

[@Brian.M]

@@IBRACORP Thanks for responding. I really appreciate your videos 😎👍

[@dancue599]

Can I ask what would happen if the folder names did not use all lowercase?

[@mraxsus]

Hi, I'm a novice guy with unraid I tried he follow the whole tutorial but but sonarr tells me that I only have 20gb available compared to radarr which tells me that I have 21tb of free space. Can anyone tell me what I did wrong?

[@cafub2650]

The 20GB showing is the docker container folder space, not your Array space. mine points to that as well. Unsure how to resolve that thou.

[@jakison2471]

Whats the best way to transition from an existing setup for my media files? Is it as simple as using krusader - copy/paste to the new /data location?

[@IBRACORP]

Pretty much yep! No copy, but move the files

[@IBRACORP]

I would make sure all your containers are stopped to avoid scans happening during the transition

[@na1du]

If you using ZFS does it matter?

[@dssguy11]

how to we do this if we already have a bunch of media in place in shares?

[@richardbrook6419]

Im having issues with getting Sonarr to connect to qBittorrent when setting up (16:13). When checking the logs it seems to be connection failure, connection refused. My understanding is that it is due to the version of qBittorrent on hotio's repo is the latest version but anything over 4.3.9 isnt supported by Sonarr. Any ideas?

[@Diviance]

Up to date versions of Sonarr supports the most up to date qbitorrent. I am currently using the up to date versions of both.

[@Diviance]

Make sure you are entering the correct IP address and port for qbittorrent. And putting in the correct username and password.

[@richardbrook6419]

@@Diviance double, triple checked and everything was correct. had the same issue with a couple of different versions from different repos.

[@Diviance]

@@richardbrook6419 Interesting. I have no issue with hotio's stuff. They connect to qBittorrent just fine. I am using the Binhex qBittorrentVPN container myself. Which one are you trying to use? Can you copy-paste the error (with any private info censored)?

[@GaMeOvErRules]

I really wish you started with setting up an array and assigned the drives and what not.

[@IBRACORP]

Thanks for the feedback, we can do that.

[@GaMeOvErRules]

@@IBRACORP I am trying to make my way through this video now and it seems there are a lot more options under the screens I am coming across vs in this tutorial which is not unexpected since this video is a couple years old. Would love a updated one in a long "one stop shop" kind of video that covers everything. as someone who is completely new to unraid it took me way to long to realize I had to create a user to get that admin account haha.

[@IBRACORP]

Hear you loud and clear. We'll revisit this one, thank you!

[@daanw6270]

​@IBRACORP is there a way to do it the way you've done in the video, using the Trash guide but also keeping all movies and tv shows seperate on different disks?

[@roderickvanrhyn2073]

how does one change data layout to allow for hardlinking as described in video

[@bustaboy666]

Awesome work works well any chance you could make one for nzbget and sonarr please

[@DM-lp2ie]

damn i wish i had this when I first set up my server

[@Csorel]

Followed this to the T but for some reason RADARR keep saying Remote download client DelugeVPN places downloads in /data/torrents but this is not a valid alpine path. Review your remote path mappings and download client settings. Anyone have this issue and how did they fix it. SONARR works perfectly with the same exact settings and paths

[@gambler3k]

how do i know if hardlinks works?.. still looks like it duplicate the files

[@peterdigitalit]

Great tutorial. Can i please ask how you recommend i do this if i already have a big media library? Have a nice day.