I use my seedbox to download and I synchronize it to my local Plex server via syncthing, however, I don’t want to permanently store the data on the Plex server. I want to move it off once the download completes.

  • marsara9@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Not sure if I entirely understand what you’re asking but here’s my setup that sounds similar-ish that might help.

    I’ve got essentially 3 machines

    1. Download machine - contains Sonarr/Radar/Nzbget, etc… This machine isn’t very powerful but it has A LOT of RAM.
    2. A Nas - this is where everything gets downloaded to. Primarily this machine just has a lot of HDD space.
    3. Jellyfin box – Decent RAM and a beefy CPU for transcoding.

    The download machine has a network share to download directly to the NAS in a special /downloads/ folder. Once a download completes Sonarr, etc… move it to it’s correct media folder.

    Finally the Jellyfin machine is monitoring the media folders for changes.

    I assume you could set up something similar with Plex instead of jellyfin and then store the fully downloaded files on a separate machine with a network drive, so Plex can see it. Essentially the NAS for you would be two machines one (the seedbox) for the partial downloads and a local NAS for the fully downloaded files?

    Anyway, not sure if that’s what you’re looking for.

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      1 year ago

      This is basically my setup.

      My NAS has individual folders for torrent files, downloads in progress, Seeding.

      Radarr/Sonarr monitors the Seeding folder. Then copies the file to the appropriate folder for Plex.

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        1 year ago

        Similar…

        • Pi to do the downloads
        • NAS to store it all
        • Mac mini that is the Plex server
        • various player devices (Apple tv, android box,etc)