Docker - trying to understand it

%$# - can't get sonarr started because of the errors with paths. really don't want to redo everything.
 
xrapidx said:
%$# - can't get sonarr started because of the errors with paths. really don't want to redo everything.
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Can't you edit the backups or something, just to tweak the path?
 
Got in by deleting the config.xml file from the backup - now I need to figure out how to change the paths, for some reason it won't let me. I can browse to the series location - but it won't save the new path.
 
Now I have another issue

Downloads get sent to sabnzb, once completed Sonarr bombs out with the following:
Code: 
Import failed, path does not exist or is not accessible by Sonarr: /config/Downloads/<series name>

I'm not sure why its looking in that location as the configuration is as follows:
Code: 
docker create --name sonarr \
-p 8989:8989 \
-e PUID=<id> -e PGID=<id> \
-e TZ=Africa/Johannesburg \
-v /home/Sonarr/config:/config \
-v /mnt/Media/Series:/tv \
-v /mnt/Media/Unprocessed/SABNzbd/Complete:/downloads \
linuxserver/sonarr

So shouldn't it be looking in /downloads instead of /config/downloads




Sinbad said:
Would have had the same issue
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Yip..
 
The - v doesn't tell sonarr where to put the stuff. It's just mappings for the container. You need to edit the sonarr config itself to change the path
 
That's what I thought, but can't find that setting in sonarr :/

Weirdly, sonarr is deleting the file from /mnt/Media/Unprocessed/SABNzbd/Complete after it completes downloading in sabnzbd
 
Pebkac again - problem was on the sabnzbd side - was placing downloads in the wrong place.
 
Back to where I was before shutting down the Windows environment yesterday morning, but with everything in docker :D

During the week I'll start the move of home-assistant.
Duan said:
Wow pearls on the ground
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:confused:
 
Sinbad said:
Would have had the same issue
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Nope. It’s all defined in the GUI and doesn’t require struggling with config files etc.

FreeNAS might be free as in money, but it’s not free in time.

UnRAID would have had him up and running in less than an hour and never touching it again.
 
SauRoNZA said:
Nope. It’s all defined in the GUI and doesn’t require struggling with config files etc.

FreeNAS might be free as in money, but it’s not free in time.

UnRAID would have had him up and running in less than an hour and never touching it again.
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It would have had the same problem with the sonarr backup. The problem was with sonarr, not the host. Unless unraid allowed access to shares in the format servername\sharename from within sonarr.
 
xrapidx said:
Pebkac again - problem was on the sabnzbd side - was placing downloads in the wrong place.
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Yeah I’ve learnt with Sonarr and Radarr and the like it’s often best to mount your folders one folder up from the exact location as they are hard coded in weird ways.

So where my folders are downloads/completed/radarr I map /downloads to /completed rather than /completed/radarr.
 
xrapidx said:
It would have had the same problem with the sonarr backup. The problem was with sonarr, not the host. Unless unraid allowed access to shares in the format servername\sharename from within sonarr.
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What do you mean by backup? How does a backup play into anything?

But no shares are always OS level mounts in typical Linux style.

However I was rather referring to the overall experience of needing to define syntax and edit SQL and XML etc.

None of that is required for UnRAID. Sure if you like that sort of thing knock yourself out but I prefer my life to be easier even when I fully understand how to it manually.
 
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SauRoNZA said:
What do you mean by backup? How does a backup play into anything?

But no shares are always OS level mounts in typical Linux style.
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The sonarr backup from the Windows PC with the share in that format were causing the issue. Sonarr kept bombing out when ever I tried to change the paths to Linux style. It was fixed by restoring the backup on my desktop, opening the db in a editor, and replacing all instances of the relative path.
 
xrapidx said:
The sonarr backup from the Windows PC with the share in that format were causing the issue. Sonarr kept bombing out when ever I tried to change the paths to Linux style. It was fixed by restoring the backup on my desktop, opening the db in a editor, and replacing all instances of the relative path.
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Aaaah not I understand more deeply.

I’ve never used their backup functions because I always have had such fundamental changes in play that I just start fresh.

But yeah your issue would have been the same then.

This is the beauty of Docker though in that future forward wise you’d just backup the whole container and not rely on the app itself to migrate.

Which is another reason I like UnRAID as it have a backup of my whole configuration go off once a week.
 
480 series. Did not want to start from a fresh

Backups will be the next thing I tackle once everything is running smoothly.
 
xrapidx said:
480 series. Did not want to start from a fresh

Backups will be the next thing I tackle once everything is running smoothly.
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Sonarr handles existing folders and bulk imports very easily so it’s no big deal.

Now in the old Sick Beard days I would chew my arm off not having a backup.
 
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