Just be aware that SI1’s setup isn’t great and it’s better to use Trash’s guide. The main idea being that downloads and media should be on the same share.
PiHole is great but as it’s a DNS server, if your unraid machine is turned off then you have no dns and cannot reasonably use the internet. Luckily you can run two instances - one in a container and another on a raspberry pi (or any other machine) so if one of them goes down then you still have DNS. Then you can point your router at both - you always have two options for DNS, the second being a backup, or used for load balancing. Even Google and Cloudflare provide two DNS servers.
You need to maintain both simultaneously so they have the same blacklists and general settings. There is another service called GravitySync that handles that for you but I’ve never been able to get that to work.
The thing he does wrong is set up separate shares for downloads and media. These should instead be directories in a share called data (or whatever you choose to call it). That way when NZBGet moves the file from downloads to media, it just updates the file system to change the directory. The files stay on the same physical sectors of the drive. If they are in different shares, NZBGet needs to copy the file which can take extra time, wear and tear on the drives, and energy. It’s an unnecessary and expensive step due to a misconfiguration.
Best practice is to pass through the data directory to all your containers (and remove the movies and tv shows directories in the container since they’re included in data) and pass everything through there. It’ll work 1000x better.
But don’t take my word for it. Use trash’s guide for this.
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