I’m happy enough to seed til kingdom come, but I’m not aware of any facility that allows this with the 'Arrs.
Is there a way to continue seeding after download is completed, and also after the files have been moved and renamed to conform to whatever convention you have in place that the media players can pick up?
I currently have them continuing for 3x ratio in the downloads folder but that’s duplicating files for who knows how long, and I don’t have an enormous amount of space.
Can the torrent client be hooked back to the files under their new names, and can it be automated?
Sonarr/Radarr can be set up to use hardlinks instead of copying files. That way the file will appear in both places but it will only take up the storage space a single time. I believe it’s one of the advanced options under media management.
one caveat is the need for *rr apps to have direct access to the storage filesystem, and not connect through some filesharing protocol (smb, NFS, etc…) afaik. ISCSI might be good since it’s presented as an actual system drive, speculating.
CIFS is SMB under a diferent name, and it might be that inside a share you can hardlink, but not across shares in the same filesystem.
I have my arrs connected through SMB and hardlinks work fine.
I’d guess it’s more about the underlying filesystem, I’ve got ext4.
Are you sharing the top folder holding both folders where you’re creating the hardlinks or are you creating individual shares for each folder?
Works fine over smb and NFS. *arr apps have no way of knowing if a folder is a mounted share or not
I just set *arr to not delete media after it copies it into my library and then I have qBittorrent set to remove and delete torrents once I hit the seed ratio I have defined.
This does take double the storage while I continue seeding but I have plenty of extra so I haven’t worried about it.
Which client are you using? I’m using deluge and *arr doesn’t remove torrents after they’re copied. There’s another job that cleans them up in the DL client itself after they’ve seeded for x time/ratio.
You should be able to configure *arr or your download client to create a link to the source content being seeded instead of copying/moving it if thats the issue.
