Hello, not so long ago I discovered Jellyfin, and by extension Radarr, Sonarr, Bazarr, Jackett, etc.
So I immediately installed Jellyfin on a Hetzner server that I already had, powerful enough to have several people consuming content at the same time on these kinds of services.
As the hard drives at home were full, and I didn't want to sacrifice my bandwidth, I got a Hetzner Storage Box to store the video content on.
So I've got Radarr, Sonarr and qBitTorrent installed on my computer, where I manage the downloads, upload them to the Storage Box which is then mounted on the server where Jellyfin is installed to serve the content (see the diagram above, the orange part would be a hypothesis for integrating more storage in the future).
Problems :
- Synchronisation between my local machine and the Hetzner Storage Box: as I was saying, I download everything locally and then upload everything with
rclone sync
to the storage. The exact command is:rclone sync /mnt/2TB/Jellyfin HetznerBox:/Jellyfin --exclude "*.!qB" --transfers 10 --fast-list --checkers 500 --progress --log-level DEBUG --log-file=/var/log/rclone/rclone-sync-jellyfin.log
This has several problems, it's slow, and I have a 1 GB/s fibre connection, and I doubt the problem is with Hetzner... Secondly, if I delete content on the storage server and run the command again, the content will be resynchronised. What's more, it often happens that I run the command and nothing happens for a long time before the synchronisation starts. Thirdly,rclone sync
forces me to keep a local copy of everything. rclone mount
does not seem to respect the--vfs-cache-max-size
: here is the command I use to mount the storage server on the server where Jellyfin is installedrclone mount HetznerBox:/Jellyfin /somepath/Jellyfin/ --vfs-cache-mode full --vfs-cache-max-size 100G --allow-other
. But if I rundf -h
I get/dev/md2 436G 148G 266G 36% /
And if I runsudo du -sh Jellyfin/
I get378G Jellyfin/
The server only has Jellyfin installed, and I don't know how to look precisely how much the vfs cache is using.- since Radarr, Sonarr and everything are on my computer, if I install Jellyserr on the same server as Jellyfin (which would be perfect for managing everything when we have several users), it won't be able to communicate with Radarr and Sonarr.
Possible solutions:
- Don't use my local machine. I'd like to use the Hetzner server for Radarr, Sonarr, qBitTorrent, etc. but the problem is that I don't want to store the data on this server, but on the Storage Box. How can I download directly from one server to another?
- Could I use Mullvad VPN only for qBitTorrent downloads (and Jackett) on a Hetzner server, or is that too complicated or foolish?
Edit:
Diagram updated to adapt more to my configuration:
- the Hetzner servers are in Finland
- tried again overnight,
rclone mount
works fine, just extremely slow - downloads of "finished" torrents and those "in progress" are already separated
Can't help you, but I have to ask, why Hetzner?
They are a german server hosting company, you know, the country with some of the strictest copyright laws? For example, a kid at an old school of mine was once fined 800€ for accidentally sharing a song on a school hosted messaging board.
If you do anything with pirated torrenting on their servers, they will know, and will come after your ass. And even sharing pirated content can get you in incredibly hot water, they might not have found out yet, but when they do, good luck.
I've been using a Hetzner server for a couple of years now and haven't gotten any abuse reports or DMCA takedown request but I'm using a docker + vpn setup so maybe it's that