A program to sync torrent folders downloaded via transmission to another directory, possibly a filesystem on NFS or another FUSE mountpoint
This script can be called frequently via a crontab as well as from the command-line, as concurrent invocation is denied by a pidfile lock
- Set up transmission.
(sudo) apt-get install transmission
Configure the following parameters in settings.json
"rpc-authentication-required": true,
"rpc-bind-address": "0.0.0.0",
"rpc-enabled": true
- Install python dependencies
(sudo) pip install -r requirements.txt
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Puth manage_transmission somewhere on your PATH
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Configure via ENV vars:
ARCHIVE_HOME ==> Archive directory to move / copy torrent data
MOUNT_COMMAND ==> Optional command to mount a filesystem before performing any iops
UNMOUNT_COMMAND ==> Optional command to unmount a filesystem after performing any iops
DOWNLOADS_HOME ==> Where transmission downloads torrents
TRANSMISSION_UNAME ==> Username for transmission's RPC interface
TRANSMISSION_PWD ==> Password for transmission's RPC interface
manage_transmission --help
Terminology:
"Archive" will stop an existing torrent, move its files to the archive directory, then delete the source files
"Sync" will copy a torrent's files to the archive directory, leaving the torrent running
Tested on python 2.7.6
Example to use in combination with google-drive-ocamlfuse filesystem:
MOUNT_COMMAND = "google-drive-ocamlfuse -verbose /mnt"
UNMOUNT_COMMAND = "fusermount -u /mnt"
Example crontab to continuously sync torrents (remember to append your path else manage_transmission wont find the right shell commands'):
* * * * * PATH=/usr/bin /usr/bin/manage_transmission sync_all