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If I'm using *arr apps with qbittorrent, are active torrents duplicating data? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I ask this because whilst *arr apps supposedly import downloaded torrents to their respective media folders, my downloads folder for qbittorrent is over 200GB in size when I've got zero incomplete downloads.

Have I set something up wrong? Or is it setting some kind of hard link between the downloads and media folder?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Wait can you expand on that a little more? I literally was just now getting ready to try and troubleshoot why my hardlinking was not working.

I was under the impression that the torrent storage and media library just needed to be in the same share, but maybe there is more to it...?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

The path inside the containers to where you download your torrents, so the path after the ":", has to be exactly the same on both your torrent container and your *arr containers

Example below won't work with hard linking

Radar:

${path_to_storage}:/downloads/torrents
${path_to_storage}:/media

Qbit:

${path_to_storage}:/downloads/torrents

But this will work

Radar:

${path_to_storage}:/downloads/torrents
${path_to_storage}:/downloads/media

Qbit:

${path_to_storage}:/downloads/torrents

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Thanks I will double check that later. Reading the Trashguides, I didn't catch that the paths had to be that identical.

It's more than a little annoying that Radarr doesn't throw any indication that it's physically duplicating files rather than creating hardlinks!