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Local unrar
I would like an option to locally unrar/zip something, because when compressed files are stored on the NAS they must be copied back to my server for decompression.
This is okay for small files, or when I don't need the network, but sometimes it just isn't appropriate. I would like the ability to unrar/zip these files locally - either through the web front-end or maybe...when ssh is enabled. :)
I hope someone else would find this useful.
This is okay for small files, or when I don't need the network, but sometimes it just isn't appropriate. I would like the ability to unrar/zip these files locally - either through the web front-end or maybe...when ssh is enabled. :)
I hope someone else would find this useful.
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- Normally I unrar from the command line. Like "unrar e foo.rar". If it's a multi-part rar just run it against the first file and it will do all of them.
Just FYI, but my readynas 4.2.18 pro 6 had unrar already installed. At least I don't think it got pulled in from what I installed (unless tonido did it).
-steve dsm1212 wrote: Normally I unrar from the command line. Like "unrar e foo.rar". If it's a multi-part rar just run it against the first file and it will do all of them.
Just FYI, but my readynas 4.2.18 pro 6 had unrar already installed. At least I don't think it got pulled in from what I installed (unless tonido did it).
-steve
Thanks for the reply. I'm really looking to automate my entire downloading, unraring, sorting process -- the only problem I'm having is that it takes about 40 minutes to unrar a 720p TV episode from my computer -- so if I can properly automate the unrar locally on the NAS, everything should go much more smoothly.
-Shawn- That would be great. Please share when you are done :-). One thing I find irksome and haven't had time to sort out is the file permissions. Files come in with one permission via Transmission but are not correct for what I want in the sharing area. I've been moving things by hand. Nothing is ever named very well anyhow so human intervention is almost required to fix that up.
smcbee wrote: I've got this all installed, but I have no idea how to actually initiate an unrar... is there a way to set up a watch folder, where any rar files will automatically be unrar'd?
nope.
the nv+/duo have seriously slow cpu for this type of work, you are far better off unraring across the network.- I have to respectfully disagree... I just used the command line to unrar a file in about 4 minutes that would have taken 40 minutes over the network. The NV+ can handle it, I just need to find a way to automate it.
- about the only way to automate it is for the program which downloads the rar to run a script and/or trigger unrrar itself.
- Cron job that wakes up every 5 min to unrar any files in an incoming folder to a destination folder and then move the rar to a processed folder? The multi-part rars are tricky though because of the "automatic" handling by unrar.
- the problems with cron jobs or anything that runs on a timer, is that the timer does not know all files have been moved to the completed folder or maybe a long unrar job is already going and then tries to start a second one, etc.
TeknoJnky wrote: the problems with cron jobs or anything that runs on a timer, is that the timer does not know all files have been moved to the completed folder or maybe a long unrar job is already going and then tries to start a second one, etc.
Have the script create/check for a pid file to prevent multiple jobs running simultaneously
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