Setting up Sonarr while seeding & migrating to NAS

[whattheschnell]

Sonarr version (exact version): V3 (To be)
Mono version (if Sonarr is not running on Windows): hotio/sonarr
OS: unRaid
Debug logs: n/a
Description of issue:

I’m going to be launching an unRaid server soon and I’m trying to plan ahead as to how I can migrate my existing setup (Windows 10) as painlessly as possible without lots of manual updates. I have dabbled with Sonarr in the past but have never actually deployed it into my setup before. I currently use several private trackers to find my content, then use deluge to download directly to the library path and I seed out of the library path ad infinitum.

Most series folders are named correctly, some are not. Likewise, some episodes are in Season folders, some are not. But these episodes and/or season are currently being seeded in the torrent client. I could stop seeding, but I choose not to. NTFS setup is like this (For those files that are correct)

Z:
└── /Media
    ├── /Movies
    ├── /Games
    └── /TV
        └── /Series A
            └── /Season 1
        └── /Series B
            ....

I found a very use wiki on r/usenet that helped me understand how would likely seutp my unraid user shares as well as docker containers to make use hardlinking such that I can seed and have files stored in the desired manner (unlike what I have now). https://old.reddit.com/r/usenet/wiki/docker . As a result my user share will look like something like this:

/mnt/user/data
├── /torrents
│  ├── /movies
│  ├── /music
│  └── /tv
└── /media
    ├── /Movies
    ├── /Music
    └── /TV

I talked to someone on the sonarr discord channel and got some tips that made think that the best approach is to copy the entirety of Z:/Media/TV as-is directly to /mnt/user/data/torrents/tv and then import that library to sonarr. Then Sonarr will hardlink and rename/setup correct folder structure within /mnt/user/data/media/TV

1. What is the best approach to renaming folders and relocating files while still being able to seed? The files themselves do not need to be renamed since they come adequately named from the private trackers. I currently use deluge and will likely use the delugevpn docker.
2. Do I need to manually update the file location of each seeding torrent within deluge, or can this be more or less automated someway?
3. Should the correct folder structure be done before or after moving to the new unRaid share?
4. Can Sonarr do this (3) or do i need a 3rd party tool like filebot to handle it since I want to continue seeding?

This is kind of a mixed bag of topics, but to me its moving to Sonarr that is causing the biggest confusion to me. And subsequently Radarr as well, but that seems more straightforward since I’ll just have the movie file + subtitle. I think I missed a few questions I had, so I’ll edit when I remember what they were.

[markus101]

1. Either disable renaming or use the {Original Filename} token
2. After the initial import you won’tr need to rename anything. As long as hardlinking is working the files will be in both locations, but only use the diskspace once
3. I wouldn’t do anything with your seeding torrents, just move them over, add them to the download client and set the proper category once the series and download client are added to Sonarr it’ll import things to the series folder (should be hardlinks, but you can start with a single series to verify).
4. Sonarr can’t organize your structure prior to importing and is not meant to organize seeding torrents without importing to the final destination, but I don’t think you should bother organizing the seeding torrents beyond what you’ve already done.