Hello all! Once again, thank you a million for all the work you do here! I just wanted to take a second to do a very quick write up on my personal experience with Sonarr. I have made some previous posts looking for assistance and there aren’t many out there that use the same setup i suppose. So here it is, this is my setup:
I use a seedbox for all downloads.
I use an program called webdrive, to map the ftp folder as a network drive
I use a program called Bvckup2 for all my backups, and decided to use it for this as well
The best way i have found so far to integrate sonarr with a seedbox is this:
Use some sort of backup software (I like Bvckup2, it is elite in so many ways, check it out!) to monitor your network drive created by webdrive (another awesome program, there are others out there though). I have it setup to only copy video files and to exclude any sample files as well, this way it only copies the bare necessities(you can make your own changes to this).
I have sonarr drone factory turned on and monitoring the folder that my backup software copies everything to. I also have the completed download handling turned off, due to it causing complications.
Like i said, this seems to be the best way to handle a seedbox. i also use this with couchpotato. If anyone is interested, i will do an actual full write up with pictures and everything to make it easier. Just let me know!
Issues in what way? CDH is superior to drone factory, but does relay on the files being mounted in a way that they can be accessed like any local file. Drone Factory will be removed in v3, the logic behind it will still be available via the API, but it won’t be something that can be set in the UI and won’t run on a schedule.
i hace thought about using the advanced network mapping and setting the local path to the folder that my backups copy to from the network drive. . if you remember our last conversation on here, you were right about something. im finding it that it has to copy all files when downloading an entire season first, to analyze then it recopies it again lol.
would setting the local path like i said be a better option than drone factory.
Yes because it would be not using something thats going to go away in v3.
No because it would be making a copy (or hardlink) of the file instead of moving it, which would mean extra cleanup.
The best solution would be to hit Sonarr’s API after the files are copied to tell it to import the files, this will get you onto something that will be available in v3 and will improve things by not having a Drone Factory scan kick off in the middle of the backup process causing an incomplete file to be imported (not an issue if the application appends to the extension to mark it as incomplete).
Thanks for the reply and sorry for the delayed response; So as far as it using a hardlink instead of moving the file… i’m not seeing that issue at all. Currently order of operations is:
-sonarr sends download to seedbox
-backup software automatically copies any completed downloads from my seedbox (I have my seedbox move completed files to a separate folder named Sonarr)
-Sonarr sees file is on my local drive now that the backup software copied it to (I have a custom remote path set to point to this folder)
-Sonarr moves said file to correct folder and renames it
Now the only thing im not sure about, and i feel like you have mentioned this before… is that sonarr won’t try and move that file until the that file has not been read/modified for a period of time?
ah… understood. I have reverted back to using it the default way i was before. It works 90% of the time. I just can’t grasp what the issue is when downloading full seasons at a time as appose to individual episodes. If it’s an individual episode, it works perfectly. If i searched and it downloaded the full season in a single torrent, it will download every episode in the season, not actually copying it to the computer (im assuming this is for gaining info on the video file) , then, recopy every file again, actually copying it to the correct folder. it just makes little sense of why it would work sometimes.
Sorry for creating this thread then, misleading others into using a less than efficient way.