How do you guys continue seeding? I end up having to move files off my yarr pc drive and onto other drives or my nas because they get too big. I want to continue seeding anything I get though for a while.
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I seed popular / usuals to 1:1, then clear.
Hard to find stuff i have permanently seed. Revenant, 1080 lexx, goodies, rare documentaries etc. if i had to fight for it you shouldn’t have to.
When I have to clean up my torrents a little bit, I order then by the amount of seeds, and I clean up the ones that have been seeded at least 1 week and have more than 50 seeds.
Focus your resources to keep seeding near dead items, more local/regional/obscure things. 1 seed more or less on a 150 swarm of a very popular, new item doesn’t matter as much as being (almost) the only one left.
“we need a bigger boat!”
You can move files and continue seeding, just tell the torrent client where the new location is.
Categories are your best friend.
Symlinks, my files are the seeded files
I just put all the Linux iso files right on the NAS and seed from there.
You don’t run a torrent server on the NAS? Generally you wanna be doing the actual torrenting on something with uptime and storage.
Then to manage the torrents you either use a webui or app.
Are you just using a desktop client?
Well I was starting out with my basement pc for now.
A NAS, an SBC eg a raspberry pi, and NFS shares are the basic setup. Everything else essentially builds on this.
Everything else essentially builds on this.
Not really though…I’m running everything related to torrenting and streaming in docker on the same bare metal with a 32tb array of HDDs in it, everything is just stored in the torrent downloads folder and organized with hardlinks in the jellyfin directory.
…which is exactly my point. Using a VM or docker to run the relevant programs and using hard links rather than NFS shares is just a more complicated (but more efficient) setup that follows the same logic. It also has a more complicated network setup for VPN use than running a VPN client on an SBC. That’s why an SBC is the easiest way in to the lifestyle, before graduating to the more complicated yet more powerful setups.
Using a VM or docker to run the relevant programs and using hard links rather than NFS shares is just a more complicated setup
What? Multiple hosts + network shares is easier than hosting everything in one place?
I really can’t see how it follows the same logic…you’re talking about distributed computing using multiple computers, I’m talking about a single piece of hardware which handles it internally.
I gave up doing it myself. I pay $8 USD a month for a seedbox and call it a day. Mainly, my VPN when I made the decision and the one I use now don’t port forward, and I’m not seeding this stuff just naked like that.
Mullvad? Same here. Switched to the competition when I realized they removed port forwarding
Mullvad now, something else before.
Mullvad does not support port forwarding. If you tell me right now that mullvad is fine for seeding then I’ll come back to it
No no, the opposite. I’m already using a paid seedbox service at this point, so that’s not a priority for me anymore.
Previously I had a dedicated 6TB drive for seeding but now I have a mega ZFS pool and use hardlinks to keep “two” copies while only using the disk space of a single copy.
Hard link is the easiest way to deal with this, and *arr deal really well with it
5tb drive and another 6tb JBOD. My needs are relatively small. I really just seed to keep my private tracker accounts active, as there is momentum to emphasize seed time over ratio with higher end trackers. Most of the media I watch is either via stremio or live streams if its sports.
After a few months I’ll clean things off my NAS
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