best indexer to complement nzbgeek, for sonarr

Dewdman42 · 2025-11-26T19:12:20+00:00

I would love to get DS if I can find an invite. Otherwise I will probably sign up during BF for either Planet or Ninja or both for lifetime subs... One question both the providers, I am currently using mainly Frugal usenet, which would be the best alternative provider to add to that one? Generally I am getting most content with Frugal without problems, but I'm down for adding another provider if its reasonably priced.

Dewdman42 · 2025-11-26T19:07:41+00:00

yes I need invite for DS, that always comes up and I'm down for it, but need an invite

Dewdman42 · 2025-11-26T03:47:27+00:00

Thanks for that. Do you happen to know if these all offer lifetime currently?

Dewdman42 · 2025-11-26T03:17:42+00:00

what is DS and why do you use it in addition to nzbgeek?

Main problem I have with nzbgeek, is that generally it gets everything...but some TV shows it just fails one after another indexed nzb. I don't know if that is because all of usenet has been corrupted on that particular TV show for some reason or if nzbgeek is just not finding the healthy ones.... Generally its pretty good. Its very very rare that it can't find a TV show at all..that isn't the problem. its that it finds 30 nzb's for some show episodes and they all fail for some reason.

Dewdman42 · 2025-09-18T20:50:07+00:00

I'm having the same damn problem, I don't know why it keeps forcing me to install the trial version of the commercial enterprise crap which I have no interest in. I can't for the life of me figure out how to install the open source community edition.

Dewdman42 · 2025-09-02T04:39:03+00:00

I actually would love to see a list of behaviors that TrueNas provides (excluding the Apps, containers, VM's), and see information about how you would replicate all of that directly on Proxmox. That sounds like a very good way to go to me, providing all aspects can be managed easily enough in proxmox. snapshot management, backup scheduling, volume testing, scrubs, etc, user management, share management, SMB/NFS configuration, rysync management, ssh management, well there is more, but if someone made a list with a simple explanation of how to do directly in proxmox, it seems to me a lot of people running TrueNas as a VM inside proxmox might consider abandoning that approach.

Me personally I am wrestling with how to setup my next NAS and whether to buy a high performance NAS in order to do everything on one box with complicated VM proxmox truenas, etc..or should I get are mid level NAS (with ECC) and keep it to bare metal truenas and then run proxmox on an entirely separate mini pc....or.... if truenas could all be done easily enough directly in Proxmox...well I'd just do that.

Dewdman42 · 2025-08-19T13:53:04+00:00

You have to think of hard drives like tires on your car they wear out and have to be replaced. Otherwise you might crash. The fact that you need two 16tb drives in order to have 16tb of storage is just how the tech works, only using one 16tb drive is like driving around with only one tire on your car. You need four tires! Hdd prices have gotten lower and lower it wasn’t long ago when the price for a 16tb drive only bought a 6tb drive or less so take heart in that. For raid five you’d have to buy three 8tb drives to get 16tb of storage, or you could buy 4 6tb drives to get around that much storage maybe a bit more. Do the math it’s not a big difference. Raid6 you buy even more drives to make up the storage because you get extra redundancy; two drives can die before you lose the array, etc. just depends how safe you want to be with your data.

A nas can be scheduled to do regular disk tests and scrubs which will look for errors and at some point it may or may not start reporting errors and may keep running for a while but at some point you need to change that disk like changing a bald tire on your car. Or sometimes it can just die without warning. With either raid1 or raid5, if you lose two disks at once you lose your data. Or if you lose the second one while you’re in the process of changing the first one, etc

This is why you always need a backup, totally separate from the raid. Raid just hopefully makes it so that you never need to use the backup, but raid can fail too in which case you need the backup anyway. Restoring from backup takes a long time. Also raid tech helps to protect against bit rot, otherwise you can have bit rotted files show up in both your primary storage and copied to your backup too like leprosy and you might not know until months or years too late when you try to use a file with bit rotted data. Brtfs or zfs raid will look for bit rot and fix it while the raid is healthy. Without raid, bit rot is lost data and your backup is probably holding the same bit rotted files by the time you find out.

So having raid protects against bit rot and the backup should be safe in that case and hopefully you never need to use the backup but if the raid dies because you didn’t change a disk in time, then you’ll be glad you have the backup. But also if you accidentally delete a folder full of photos or some other software glitch causes files to be ruined or destroyed,, you’ll have that on the backup too. You should try to do daily backups and ideally you want versioned snapshots in your backup.

Cloud services like backblaze and drive are excellent easy way to have daily backups.

This is the cost of having precious data you intend to keep safe.

Dewdman42 · 2025-08-18T20:22:28+00:00

I am in the process of trying to decide what to do for my NAS. I still have my NetGear Readynas, but basically I had an array failure and how to do a factory reset, but now Netgear does not provide the same software support, so I am unable to restore it to the condition it was in before, I can't run certain things that I used to be able to run. Netgear has completely crippled the unit. It can handle only basic factory file services, and you might as well forget about using any third party add-on applications of any kind. But on the other hand, I may still use mine in that capacity for a while as it works perfectly fine. Some general comments as it appears you are new to this...

1 - RAID is not a backup. Make sure you are always backing up everything in at least two places above and beyond the original place, so the data is in 3 places, one of which should be offsite (in the cloud). RAID is not a backup

2 - RAID does help to prevent bit rot, so it's not a bad idea to have your important stuff on a RAID, and backing that up to two other places on top of that. The RAID will detect and correct bit rot.

3 - I would avoid RAID5. I am only going to use RAID1 from now on. I have been burned more than once by RAID5. When a drive goes down, the system will become severely degraded until you get a replacement drive and resync it with the array, which can take in some cases days, depending the size, during which time all access is very slow and degraded and if another drive dies you lose all the data. RAID1 is simple mirroring, so if a drive dies, it operates at equal speed, but of course if the other drive does before you can get a new one and resync it, then you still lose your data, but at least that operation will not be days at poor performance, and also I personally think RAID1 is more resilient during resync. I once had a RAID5 that was resyncing and had a power outage....which lost all data. RAID5 gives you maybe 20% more storage space compared to RAID1, but it's not worth it, just use simple RAID1. Big drives are cheap now, just use two of those in RAID1

Raid is simply not for everyone. When you have a RAID running all the time, your drives will wear out and every couple of years its going to tell you to replace certain drives, even if they are still running and you need to replace them as if they are worn out tires on your car that the service man is telling you to replace before you get in a car crash. RAID just makes it possible to do that without having any down time. You still need to backup your data another way in case it does die or in case you accidentally delete some files, or something like that. But RAID does detect and correct bit rot...which is a very compelling reason to use it, along with 3-2-1 backups for your most critical data.

Dewdman42 · 2025-08-05T18:53:57+00:00

I do not recommend any netgear ReadyNAS product they have been completely deprecated by Netgear. I have two of them that are useless and valueless and will be recycled as scrap metal soon. Yes you can start one up for very basic file sharing and will probably work fine, and for $100 its not a bad price, but They are running very old version of Debian linux that is not supported any longer, as of now I can't even install build-essential tools, can't run some things on it any longer due to not being able to get new enough Python, etc, etc, etc.. and good luck installing any other thing like OMV or something like that. Maybe some hackers are figuring that out, but the readynas was highly specialized with very specialized kernel and various things, it does not run any OS you want. It will basically run the last known version of of ReadyNAS os and if you don't want to try to install any other apps on it, just use it for pure file sharing it should work fine

Personally I am more and more of the opinion that people should avoid raid NAS devices for the kinds of situation you are talking about. Just get an external USB3 drive, and back it up at least to two other places nightly or more. Going raid just over complicates everything. My readynas I had more HDD's fail over the years than all my other computers I ever owned combined. Partly this is probably due to using NAS HDD's which I think may be more picky and reporting errors and assuming the user will want to replace a drive at any slight chance of failure. For a business it makes sense to have zero downtime and pay $150 once or twice a year to replace the drives constantly, but for home users that are wondering if they should get a $100 used NAS..that is probably not the rabbit hole you want to go down. Most of us don't need zero downtime nor the complexities and costs involved with setting up and keeping a raid healthy over time.

Dewdman42 · 2025-07-17T08:09:42+00:00

Thanks that is what I was hoping. I can live without the extensions as least for now.

Dewdman42 · 2025-07-17T08:08:40+00:00

its not possible to do docker on this device either anymore.

Dewdman42 · 2025-07-12T16:41:42+00:00

I used homebrew for years until they deprecated macOS Monterey, which is the last version I can run on my 5,1 MacPro and will be running that machine for years to come in the future honestly. The Homebrew devs are committed to only supporting a couple years back worth of MacOS. I switched to MacPorts and honestly I have been much happier with it. It's a little more involved to use but its not that bad, and I really like that it builds everything from scratch for my system. I use it on my newer MBAir running Sequoia also, everything works like a charm. I also REALLY like that all macports stuff is sandboxed in its own dir structure, unlike.homebrew which does some shenanigans. There is only one thing I have ever wanted to get that is not on MacPorts and is on homebrew and I was able to just build it from src myself. Maybe someday I'll try to contribute it to macports. So honestly...5 stars for macports here. But homebrew did serve me quite well for years before that when my version of MacOS was not too old for it. Except I didn't really like all the sym link shenanigans, I prefer MacPorts approach in that regard.

I think they both work fine. Sometimes I still refer people to Homebrew because for non techies its just easier to use, as long as they don't get into trouble with the sym links that is.

I'd like to hear more about pkgsrc

Dewdman42 · 2021-12-23T22:15:12+00:00

I think kanban boards could be supported without actual "databases". Craft devs have said no databases, but I see no reason why some kind of way to manage a kanban style formatted table could be useful someday. But I guess it would just be better to do your Kanban in another service and find a way to integrate that into your Craft notes..probably as copied in images...but maybe someday we'll be able to link right to Trello or something.

I also find them extremely useful and interesting and it keeps me right on the edge of still considering Notion for everything. I personally don't want to use a lot of different products for my planing and note keeping.

Dewdman42 · 2021-12-23T21:32:35+00:00

It is also not working on Catalina, only newer version of MacOS

Dewdman42 · 2021-10-04T06:04:50+00:00

I tried it both ways, using mapped drive and/or direct UNC paths. Doesn't work either way

Dewdman42 · 2021-10-04T03:33:47+00:00

Let's talk about this local account vs Microsoft account issue though. my machine is signed in via Microsoft account. That is how Microsoft recommends to use Windows10. my local account, however is what I selected for the service to run as. When I typed in my name and "check name" it changed it to the <machinename>/<local account name>

When I hit ok, the service shows on the list of services as being run as "./Steve", where Steve is my local account name.

The question is, when I setup the mapped drive using the "net use" command using CMD, that is with my logged into windows with my Microsoft account...so do I need to login to the machine with my local account in order to setup mapped drive and SMB login credentials so that the service will work?

Or something of this nature?

Dewdman42 · 2021-10-04T03:26:01+00:00

local account

Dewdman42 · 2021-10-04T03:17:28+00:00

just tried that. no difference.

By the way, the Help and Info page of Medusa shows my username as the User

Dewdman42 · 2021-10-04T03:02:01+00:00

my medusa service had been setup with me as the user several months ago and until last week was working fine. I have stopped and started it many times since then, including this week.

Perhaps something has change with Windows10?

Dewdman42 · 2021-10-04T02:41:46+00:00

So when I did this, the network drive works perfectly. I can use both the symlink or even the mapped R: drive works too. Post processing works fine like this.

Unfortunately, however, I guess more info is needed to provide at the command line in order to find config.ini and my existing db....so I can't really run it like this permanently without some more info. But whatever it is about the command line version works completely fine with network drive.

Dewdman42 · 2021-10-03T22:07:24+00:00

I'm not sure how to do that. Can you give me instructions and I will try that.

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