Directory issues with NAS and SABnzbd via Docker

[dasnico]

Hi All

Recently sussed how to install apps with Docker on to my WD My Cloud PR2100 via ssh - pretty cool and honestly quite shocked at how long it took me to figure out.

I attempted to install SAB today via Docker with these instructions:

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docker create --name=sabnzbd \
-v <path to data>:/config \
-v <path to downloads>:/downloads \
-v <path to incomplete downloads>:/incomplete-downloads \
-e PGID=<gid> -e PUID=<uid> \
-e TZ=<timezone> \
-p 8080:8080 -p 9090:9090 \
linuxserver/sabnzbd

and while the installation was successful, I’m having issues pointing it to certain directories/shares on my PR2100. I’ve currently deleted and removed the SAB image and container until I can figure out what is happening - I think the first part of the problem is happening during the ssh container creation.

In terminal the instructions tell me to issue this command:

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-v <path to data>:/config \

which in this case I thought it would be:

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-v /shares/public/software/SABnzbd:/config \

shares/public/software is where I have ssh’d other apps like couchpotato (which I haven’t started to set up yet).

Now, once SAB is up and running and I go in to set everything up, it’s telling me my default base folder is “/config” and files aren’t downloading to the correct folders as a result. If I tell it to go to ‘shares/plex/movies’ then SAB is automatically thinking it’s ‘/config/shares/plex/movies’. I’m guessing SAB is assuming that “config” is the root, in which case I’d need to re-install Sonarr and CouchPotato into this directory, which then would mess up my already existing share structure for Plex:

/Shares/Plex/Movies
/Shares/Plex/TV

I guess I’m asking is there a way to get SAB, Couch and Sonarr to look outside of their own directories? And if not, what’s the best way to re-arrange my existing file structure so everything talks to one another?

Thanks so much!

[sander]

If I tell it to go to ‘shares/plex/movies’ then SAB is automatically thinking it’s ‘/config/shares/plex/movies’. I’m guessing SAB is assuming that “config” is the root,

Yes, SAB uses that as relative path ... unless in the SAB GUI you thell the absolute path which STARTS with a "/"
BUT: a docker container cannot see/get outside the directory it was assigned to it (which is by default: nothing)

[dasnico]

Thanks, sander!

What's the best way to get everything up and running then? Must they all be installed in the same directory/share as the media files plex is using?

[sander]

I don't know. I know SABnzbd and docker, but not Plex, Couch nor Sonarr; I've never used that.