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I have a pretty standard *arr stack going, but my media repo is stored on a single (albeit large) drive.

In the future, if I want to add storage, how would I configure the apps to look in multiple places to build their libraries? Is there some documentation someone can point me to?

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[–] bigb@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (3 children)

All *arr apps should use root folders to organize media. If I understand the question, here's the hypothetical situation:

  1. Create a root folder for *Arr App.
  2. Download media until drive is full.
  3. Create a new root folder that points to different drive.
  4. Configure *Arr App to move new downloads to new root folder created in step 3.

You should be able to have multiple root folders, but I've only checked in So are. One problem you'll run into is that you can't break up music artists or TV show series across root folders.

You might want to consider something like OpenMediaVault or Unraid to manage your storage. Either platform (or others) allow you to add drives as needed. I don't use either so I'm just passing that along as a consideration.

[–] kn0wmad1c@programming.dev 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Thanks for the help! I'll look into both OMV and Unraid to see if they're what I'm looking for

[–] CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Also MergerFS like mentioned above, SnapRAID, OMV, Unraid, TrueNAS, or just plain ZFS. Something to create a pool of drives will be your best bet. These all do it while some are full OSes or hypervisors and others are things you can implement in your current OS. What are you currently using for your OS?

[–] kn0wmad1c@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Ubuntu, strictly cli