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I had a small media library for myself, and wanted to automate it a bit more, so implemented arr stack (prowlarr, radarr, lidarr), it seems to work but I’m not sure how to pick indexers. I have no experience with it, and I initially just picked a public one, but it barely ever seems to download something.

I’m a bit confused about it, should i just pick as many as I can? Or join a private one? But no idea where to start there.

Any advice or push in the right direction would be appreciated.

Having a few public indexers shouldn’t hurt. However you probably don’t want to add a ton otherwise you will likely end up being overloaded by duplicates.

But really you should invest in getting into private trackers. Even an entry to mid-tier tracker will get you far better and more reliable results than public. Also the content will generally be much better seeded and more reliable.

I use Prowlarr with Flaresolverr.

Setup the Flaresolverr indexer proxy in Prowlarr: - Tags: flaresolverr - Host: http://flaresolverr:8191/ (or whatever host+port your flaresolv

And then I use these: - 1337x (Add Tags: flaresolverr) - TorrentDownload - Knaben

It’s not the best and Knaben is mostly just TPB + Rutracker. But this setup gets me everything I need. Everything wrong is filtered as I made my setup look for HEVC with specific bit rate ranges. Invalid file extensions are filtered out.

For actual downloading I use RDT Client with the TorBox debrid service.

Sometimes some indexing services time out but I’ll get the content later.

In my experience, with this setup, I really don’t need Usenet or private torrent trackers.

I have a 56 TB local Unraid NAS that is parity protected against single drive failure, and while I think a single drive failing and being parity recovered covers data loss 95% of the time, I’m always concerned about two drives failing or a site-/system-wide disaster that takes out the whole NAS.

For other larger local hosters who are smarter and more prepared, what do you do? Do you sync it off site? How do you deal with cost and bandwidth needs if so? What other backup strategies do you use?

(Sorry if this standard scenario has been discussed - searching didn’t turn up anything.)

So being encrypted before transmission and at rest isn’t enough simply because someone at backblaze can send the encrypted files out to you on a HDD……..

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