Multiple Servers = Load Balance?

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prochobo
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Multiple Servers = Load Balance?

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What happens if you have more than one primary server defined in the config?  Does sabnzbd run concurrent downloads, does it round robin the files one at a time, or does it still only use one?

If it ran downloads concurrently, then that would be sweet.  The problem I'm having is that I have a load balanced link.  Dual 20mb lines combined into one. As we all know, most if not all providers only allow logins from one IP.  So, the answer is to just get two Usenet accounts, but that means you can't download the same set of files from a single .nzb unless you want to manually group the files into download groups and run two instances of sabnzbd.

End goal - use both WAN connection at the same time to download a common set of files
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shypike
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Re: Multiple Servers = Load Balance?

Post by shypike »

This is not a new question.
Yes, SABnzbd will use all primary servers at once.
No, we cannot force traffic for a specific server over a specific network connection.

For the last issue you will need to setup some form of static routing outside SABnzbd.
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Re: Multiple Servers = Load Balance?

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shypike wrote: This is not a new question.
Yes, SABnzbd will use all primary servers at once.
No, we cannot force traffic for a specific server over a specific network connection.

For the last issue you will need to setup some form of static routing outside SABnzbd.
Thank  you.  Sorry, I should have searched.  And yes, I didn't expect sabznbd to be able to do that; that'd be a job for my router.
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Re: Multiple Servers = Load Balance?

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"This is not a new question" doesn't mean I blame you for asking this.
More like: we have been asked this before, but must sadly admit that we have
no solution for the routing problem.
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