So I’ll start by admitting that I shot myself in the foot a bit by installing nixos (I’m willing to move to any Linux because that’s what I’m familiar with) on what I hope to make my dedicated NAS computer. I have quite a bit of Linux experience doing normal computer things locally, but damned if networking isn’t a completely different ball game and you have to admit the documentation for this stuff can be a little on the obtuse side!

Long story short I’m looking for a solution I can roll out in just a couple hours for setting up a jellyfin with the *arrs and whatever torrent web UI I don’t care, which has sane defaults, will let me easily manage it remotely, and will definitely pipe all torrent activity through my mullvad VPN. I’ve been using qbittorrent because it lets you define a network interface and if the VPN isn’t available it will just stop. I’d like to ensure this always happens because my ISP is very touchy.

I’ve found a docker with the *arrs and jellyfin but it uses PIA for the VPN and I don’t know how to change that, and I also don’t know how to import my existing library because sonarr keeps misidentifying everything when I try. I know nothing about docker and at this point am too pissed off at it to want to learn either (really I just need a video/document that explains what docker is and does and gets to the point you know? I haven’t had much luck)

Also I’ve never been able to get any kind of file server working except sshfs on this network.

I have it so tantalizingly, obnoxiously close to working how I want, there’s just always something that breaks on me and I’m out of mental energy for this project and I’d like something that works. What do you people do?

If this is the wrong place to post this or there exists a better one, I apologize. Or if you do decide to put up with my essentially vent posting I appreciate it!

  • lemmyvore@feddit.nlEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I think you bit a big mouthful if you’re just starting out on the NAS game. I would suggest breaking things down into smaller pieces:

    1. Prepare a standalone container only with the VPN.
    2. Try to set up a torrent client container on its own.
    3. Learn how to set up docker networks for the 1st and 2nd container so that the torrent client will always use the VPN.
    4. Try to set up a Jellyfin container on its own.
    5. Move on to the *arr stack.

    nixOS also has a bit of a learning curve and it would’ve probably been easier if you started with something else. Up to you if you want to stick to it. IMO it’s mostly overkill for an OS that will simply serve as the base for a docker setup.