TheMadCodger

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[–] TheMadCodger@piefed.social 61 points 1 day ago

More than that. Carter put solar panels on the White House. Regan took them down. 40+ years of making America worse so the dragons could grow their hordes.

I remember what it was like, newly adrift on the high seas. Ping me if you need help. ✌🏻

Well, Synology is a brand name NAS aimed at beginners with their own "OS". Unless you were planning on dropping a decent chunk of change to buy one, it's a moot point. But because it's a popular option among people starting out, I was curious of that was your situation, in which case that link would walk you through everything you needed to know, including its quirks.

I replied to someone else in this thread on how to get started with Usenet if you're interested. It boils down to two subscriptions and another container running with your arrs stack.

[–] TheMadCodger@piefed.social 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

You need two subscriptions. One to an indexer (https://nzb.su/) which acts like a search engine, and two to a Usenet that hosts media (https://frugalusenet.com/). These two aren't the only two options out there, but I've been using them for years. YMMV.

Once you have those subscriptions, you need to run sabnzbd in a docker container near your arrs, and point your arrs to the indexer as well as to sabnzbd. Tell Sonarr you want to find a show, it uses the indexer to see where it can be found, tells sabnzbd to acquire it using the servers you paid for in the Usenet group, downloads and pieces it back together and then files it where Sonarr tells it to. Jellyfin notices that media folder has something new, and you can watch it wherever.

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[–] TheMadCodger@piefed.social 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Reason I asked about Synology was because there's a good guide here for the arr deployment. I adapted it for my ugreen nas. Might be able to find parallels with whatever set up you've got going on.

Usenet is archaic, but therein lies the protection. It's a straight download of disparate files that a program you run puts together. Safer than torrent, but your options may be more limited.

[–] TheMadCodger@piefed.social 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (8 children)

What are you running? Does it happen to be some all in one solution like Synology or Ugreen?

But the gist of it is you get the arrs running in a docker stack, jellyfin running in another. You don't actually have to point them at each other: the arrs dump your films/series into a media folder you define. You tell your jellyfin server what folder has your media and bob's your uncle.

I prefer using Usenet to download my media. Pros, not torrent, less risk. Cons, costs a bit each year.

[–] TheMadCodger@piefed.social 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They would let Trump take a shit in their mouths if they thought a Dem would have to smell it.

[–] TheMadCodger@piefed.social 16 points 1 week ago

Who are the two dissenters?

/s

[–] TheMadCodger@piefed.social 41 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Don't worry, he'll get hired at another police department in a different state.

I wish /s

[–] TheMadCodger@piefed.social 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] TheMadCodger@piefed.social 7 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

He totally read that upside down bible that one time

[–] TheMadCodger@piefed.social 3 points 2 weeks ago

Uso "vosotros" pero vivía en España cuando aprendí. Pero la verdad es no estoy seguro de cómo se usa "usted" y me da miedo preguntar. 😂

 

Cross posted from https://piefed.social/c/selfhosted/p/1869119/advice-on-swapping-from-synology-to-a-ugreen

I've been using a two-bay Synology nas for the last couple of years with 2x 8TB drives and a stupidly large media collection. I recently acquired a four-bay ugreen nas but don't have any drives for it yet because fuck you AI.

Since I need to have all the same drive size for raid, I was thinking of getting larger disks and taking out a second mortgage. Like start with 2x 12TB and some day add two more. If I do that, I'll have 2x 8TB that wouldn't be useful without keeping the Synology running, and I don't really need both.

The other idea was buying two more 8TB for the new nas, copying the media over, and then moving the two over to make four and decommission the Synology.

I am not well versed in raid, so there easily could be something I'm not considering or a way I should do this to make my life easier.

Also, any advice on how one normally keeps backups with such a large amount of data. I know raid ≠ backup, but right now I'm just praying to the tech gods that the disks keep spinning. I know others out there have large media collections… what do you do?

 

I've been using a two-bay Synology nas for the last couple of years with 2x 8TB drives and a stupidly large media collection. I recently acquired a four-bay ugreen nas but don't have any drives for it yet because fuck you AI.

Since I need to have all the same drive size for raid, I was thinking of getting larger disks and taking out a second mortgage. Like start with 2x 12TB and some day add two more. If I do that, I'll have 2x 8TB that wouldn't be useful without keeping the Synology running, and I don't really need both.

The other idea was buying two more 8TB for the new nas, copying the media over, and then moving the two over to make four and decommission the Synology.

I am not well versed in raid, so there easily could be something I'm not considering or a way I should do this to make my life easier.

Also, any advice on how one normally keeps backups with such a large amount of data. I know raid ≠ backup, but right now I'm just praying to the tech gods that the disks keep spinning. I know others out there have large media collections… what do you do?

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