No torrent list, no daemon in Transmission Remote GUI

How2 Clone Transmission Torrent Library to another ReadyNAS?

Hi. Me again. I copied a torrent library to a second ReadyNAS and can't administer it. Above I complain that the daemon won't start and the torrent list remains blank when I log onto the second ReadyNAS with the popular Yury Sidorov Remote GUI.

But this is bassackwards.

Shouldn't I be asking, How do you clone a Transmission torrent library onto another ReadyNAS?

I copied the data delivered by the torrents (the music library), but I forgot to copy the database of short files that the daemon itself uses to keep track of the library. For us, those files are here (my non-working clone is in my 2nd ReadyNAS, "NASbox2"): NASbox2/addons-config/Transmission/transmission-daemon which contains folders

• /blocklist
• /resume
• /torrents

Eureka! If there is nothing in those /torrents and /resume folders, then you get a blank admin screen -- nothing for daemon to do. Here's how someone described their content (a short 5 or 7kb file, one for each torrent) in https://trac.transmissionbt.com/wiki/ConfigFiles

torrents/ This subfolder holds the .torrent files that have been added to Transmission. The files in this folder are named with a combination of the torrent's name (to make it human-readable) and a portion of the torrent's SHA1 hash (to avoid filename collisions from similarly-named torrents). resume/ This subfolder holds .resume files that hold information about a particular torrent, such as which parts have been downloaded, the folder the downloaded data was stored in, and so on. These follow an identical naming scheme to the files in the torrents subfolder.

So let's not just copy the torrent data (music library), let's also copy the files into the daemon's /torrents and /resume folders. Done! No difference. Blank admin page.

So maybe the real question is, if all the received torrents plus all the daemon's /torrents and /resume data for those torrents are copied into a cloned ReadyNAS box, how do you re-initialize the Transmission app (service) in that box to incorporate that data? In a very different box mentioned here http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Transmission_daemon the restart/reinitialize command we might need looks like this (after SSH'ing into the ReadyNAS):

/opt/bin/transmission-daemon -g /mnt/data/torrents/.config/transmission-daemon

That may be the same for us as FrontView/Services/Installed Add-ons/Transmission/uncheck&"Save", a command that has been buggy for years. You get the message, "Service failed to start" but the light turns green and it has started. Or it really has not and you try again (firmware 4.1.12 and 4.1.13; 4.1.14 might be better).

Reinstalling the entire Transmission add-on clears/reinitializes the whole daemon folder area, so I'll try restarting. What's my next level of non-comprehension? Happy to hear from you while I tidy up around here for an approaching cold front and storm. Aren't we close to a solution here? Amazing how utterly stupid and obvious a mistake looks in hindsight.