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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Depends. On private trackers I usually seed for long times because they give points that are exchangeable for Gb to download. I have an ungodly amount of points, and s great ratio. Still I want more points.
I’m kinda selective, only seeding stuff past a 1.0 ratio with low or single digit seeders. Some stuff for years and years, but I’m not gonna bother with something like a new south park episode past 1.0. It’s not at risk of being lost media. That’s my main concern, preservation.
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.
You can move files and continue seeding, just tell the torrent client where the new location is.
Categories are your best friend.
“we need a bigger boat!”
Symlinks, my files are the seeded files
I just put all the Linux iso files right on the NAS and seed from there.
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.
Historically NFS and using one service per server was the usual process. “Builds on” means that the newer processes were developments and improvements to older processes. For example NFS was released in the 1980s and Docker in 2013. Obviously the efficiencies in docker and hyperconverged servers are the reason they have taken over most set ups, but it’s not obvious that software such as docker would have come into existence without the original networking processes.
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?
I used to download and seed torrents 24/7 directly from my shitty consumer smr drive.
Not only speed was very slow but I think I killed the drive because of that.
I’m still thinking how I’m going to proceed now that I’m setting up my NAS again, I think I’m going to have to torrent to some smaller, cheaper but higher quality drive and then copy to the smr archive, until I can afford an enterprise drive.
It’s also possible that I killed the drive due to bad heat management, but in the datasheet it says something that I’m only supposed to use it for 2h a day per year and not 24/7.
NAS drives matter. Even without disk activity, 24/7 means they’ll do a LOT more spinning than other use cases.
Well I was starting out with my basement pc for now.
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.
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.
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
After a few months I’ll clean things off my NAS
