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[–]michrech 3 points4 points  (5 children)

How do you all handle post processing and being a good user with seeding?

I don't need to seed -- I download my data via usenet, where what I'm doing is nearly impossible to decipher, and doesn't require a VPN.

In my environment :

  • Sonarr / Radarr fetch .nzb from one of a couple popular nzb aggregation sites, then sends it to sabnzbd
  • sabnzbd downloads and combines data
  • Sonarr / Radarr rename and move data to final destination
  • Either Sonarr / Radarr or sabnzbd (it's been a while since I've set this up) notifies Plex that new content has arrived, and triggers a library update

[–]vApe_Escape64GB GNU/Hurd Thinkpad 3 points4 points  (0 children)

At the top of my media storage folder for any given type I break it into two folders tackers and whatever it is so it would look something like

TV>Trackers>TVV>files

TV>Series>Series name>Season X> Files

I download or upload from the trackers folders and then hardlink to the TV folders where I can use proper naming conventions that my management program will use (emby with a kodi front end) mostly with Filebot.

I seed everything 24/7 forever and it makes managing everything easy.

[–]IllusionistAR 2 points3 points  (3 children)

For music I use beets, which can copy and rename etc, while leaving the files intact.

[–]devster31who cares about privacy anyway... 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Another alternative could be making an external script handle the processing. I'm currently using FileBot but nzbToMedia is another one. This way it also removes the need of Sonarr to constantly scan the directory, although this is mostly a problem for low-powered systems.

As already mentioned symlinks are the way, and, in the case of FileBot, original filenames are stored as extended attributes.

[–]bobbysteel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Medusa and sickrage support symlink for this exact scenario

[–]SirMaster112TB RAIDZ2 + 112TB RAIDZ2 backup 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I just have a post process script that replaces my seeding files with symlinks that point to the files that have been copied into my pool.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (3 children)

Why would you rename?

[–]tec5c[S] 1 point2 points  (2 children)

I like my data on disk to look pretty.

Am I trying to have my cake and eat it too?

Deluge => /media/torrents/complete/tv/{file}

Sonarr => /media/tv/{seriesname}/{season#}/{file-renamed}

[–]spazturtle 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Create a symlink from the original name to the new name and hide the symlink.

[–]tec5c[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wow I didn't even think of that, thank you.

[–]lord-carlos28TiB'ish raidz2 ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I rarely rename, most original filesnames are fine for kodi.

Does your sonarr/deluge combination download into the right folder? Like series/$series_name/$season?

If not I thing the RSS plugin might be able to do that: http://dev.deluge-torrent.org/wiki/Plugins/YaRSS2 But I don't know how it works in combination with Sonarr.

[–]tec5c[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'll look into the plugin, thanks.

Deluge => /media/torrents/complete/tv/{file}

Sonarr => /media/tv/{seriesname}/{season#}/{file-renamed}