Recently I have moved to ZFS and realized I did set up my datasets in a bit suboptimal way. Bit with over 20 TBs of data there is not much I can do about it, given I want to snapshot/backup my volumes separately.
The datasets look like this:
- Downloads - this is where Transmission is downloading stuff and gets picked up by the *arr apps
- Movies - Radarr target
- Music - Lidarr target
- TV - Sonarr target
- Stash - well you can imagine, curated manually and served trough Stash app
Now of course hardlinks dont work across datasets, so moving/copying files from Downloads to the target datasets takes too long and i need to keep two copies of my files, one for seeding and one for the actual collection.
I am trying to figure out how to download directly to the respective media folders with these conditions:
- without messing up the catalogue for the *arr apps and Plex with some partial downloads or unverified stuff that gets deleted immediately after download (because of being inferior quality or something else)
- i often modify my downloads by adding tags, sometimes removing/adding additional audio tracks etc, so i want to keep the downloaded version for seeding and my modified version for the catalogue
I was thinking about setting up a downloads target under each media folder, e.g. Movies\_downloads, Music\_downloads, etc. but I could not find a way for the *arr apps to set so this folder is handled for downloads and not as a media collection.
Any ideas how to approach this properly?