It would be great if I could configure sonarr to gradually work though my missing episodes and search for them. The way I see this working is having a counter where you could select something like scan for a missing episode every 15 mins and it will slowly trickle though the list thereby not placing excessive load on the trackers but working though the list. This will be handy in a case where you have a very large number of missing episodes that you want to catch up.
I understand the reasoning behind disabling automatic backlog search, but I think there are circumstances when it is appropriate.
I added several shows (in need of backlog) with unrealistic quality expectations. I realized the problem when I did a manual search, and corrected my file size settings and series quality preference, but it seems no attempt was made to download backlogged episodes after the change.
If the search requirements have changed, shouldn’t there be a setting to do a trickle backlog? Or at least cache the indexer results beforehand for all qualities so quality could be changed without additional API hits? Because of the quality change, I have ~30 pages of “missing” episodes, and I feel like a controlled trickle search would be nicer to my indexers than doing a manual search page by page, (or even worse, “search all missing”) not to mention more convenient.
It’s actually a good idea, but we would have to mark episodes/series ‘dirty’ after config update affecting that series, could be complicated.
Additionally, we need to add the IndexerState table for backoff logic and last received rss entry.
Also, I absolutely do not want periodic backlog searches.