My torrent client downloads files to internal SSD. When I’m low on storage (often), I remove some torrents from qbittorrent and move files to external HDD. It means I can’t seed them anymore.

I want to be able to seed HDD torrents periodically. What workflow can I employ? I can think of:

  1. Use 2 different torrent clients. One with “external” torrents only. It will never be launched when external HDD is not plugged in, therefore old torrents will not be marked as “missing files” and will not require verification every now and then;

  2. Use single torrent client which can accept CLI commands to start/stop specific torrents. Before detaching external HDD I will run a script to stop all external torrents. I will resume them back again only when HDD is accessible.

Any other ideas?

  • TwoTiredMice@feddit.dkEnglish
    1·
    17 hours ago

    I have no experience with this, at all, but could creating symlinks from your internal SSD to your external HDD perhaps solve this issue?

    • podbrushkin@mander.xyzOPEnglish
      2·
      13 hours ago

      I suspect there were no issue in the first place. A lot of time ago, if torrent client encountered files are missing, you had to run long process of verification for them to become available for seeding.

      Now, if torrents switched to “files are missing” you can restart torrent client and seed like if nothing happened. No need for categories even. Also, function “Set location” can be used to move torrent to external storage.