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  • I would be happy to accept money, but I’m with everyone else here, just ask your questions and you’ll get answers.

    But before you even get started, I have a question for you since it’s not indicated anywhere in your post. What do you want to self host? Do you want a media server (jellyfin)? Cloud storage? A federated service like Lemmy? Do you want to share these services with people outside of your home? Whatever knowledge gaps you want filled are going to depend on this.

    I will say that a decent step 0 is finding a computer that you can put Linux on. It can be an old laptop that’s gathering dust, or, if you’re just trying to dip your toes and get a feel for it, you can try using a VM or WSL on your main computer (I’m assuming you have a computer with windows)








  • For the purposes of this explanation sonarr and radarr are the same, but keep in mind that sonarr only does tv shows and radarr only does movies

    You tell sonarr what you want to watch --> sonarr tells prowlarr what you want to watch --> prowlarr will search websites for magnet links to your show (you have to specify which websites) --> prowlarr will give the download manager (qbittorrent, etc) the magnet link and it will download it --> sonarr will take the downloaded file and copy it somewhere else for organizational purposes --> media server (jellyfin) will see the copied file and download associated metadata (thumbnail, episode name, episode number, etc) and allow you to watch it

    The only programs you need for a purely functional arr stack are sonarr/radarr, prowlarr, qbittorrent, and jellyfin, or any other media server. Anything else is purely icing on the cake



  • It depends on how important your data is to you. Me personally, I just run a jellyfin server with dubiously acquired tv shows and movies. Which is to say that if I lost everything in a catastrophic failure, I wouldn’t much care, so I decided to get a refurbished 14tb USB connected external HDD.

    If you run anything more important, you should listen to others who might have a more robust solution