[unRAID] Do you have any tips from your experience building a media archive?
Posted: 12 Mar 2023, 08:28
I've been working toward the media server that I'm building now for a year at least. I've spent a lot of time thinking about it and planning and trying different software. I still feel like I'm missing something though.
I'm curious if anyone has any suggestions for things they've learned along the way that would have been helpful to know from the beginning. Things that might make it easier or save time in the long run.
I've seen a lot of talk about arr programs that will automate downloading and renaming, but I've always been apprehensive about automating too much of the process. When I rename files as it is, I'd say the majority of them require something to be manually changed. I would suspect that a fully automatic process would have a lot of errors.
So far what I have done is to make a script that automatically downloads files from a seedbox, and takes torrent files and sorts them by tracker, discarding duplicates. When a download finishes, qBittorrent runs a script that creates a hardlink of the files. Those files go into a folder to be sorted by FileBot when possible.
I'd thought a lot about seeing if there was a way to automatically create a spreadsheet with media info, present and missing episode numbers, etc, but so far I've been proceeding without doing so.
I'm curious if anyone has any suggestions for things they've learned along the way that would have been helpful to know from the beginning. Things that might make it easier or save time in the long run.
I've seen a lot of talk about arr programs that will automate downloading and renaming, but I've always been apprehensive about automating too much of the process. When I rename files as it is, I'd say the majority of them require something to be manually changed. I would suspect that a fully automatic process would have a lot of errors.
So far what I have done is to make a script that automatically downloads files from a seedbox, and takes torrent files and sorts them by tracker, discarding duplicates. When a download finishes, qBittorrent runs a script that creates a hardlink of the files. Those files go into a folder to be sorted by FileBot when possible.
I'd thought a lot about seeing if there was a way to automatically create a spreadsheet with media info, present and missing episode numbers, etc, but so far I've been proceeding without doing so.