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About Marauder

Marauder is a fully dockerized cloud media server solution utilising Google Drive as an unlimited disk backend, assisting with the setup of tools like Sonarr, Radarr, Sabnzbd, Transmission and services enhancing their function.

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Docker

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Depends on a proprietary service outside the user's control

More about Marauder

Marauder

This is designed to be a fully dockerized Media downloading + Watching solution utilising Google Drive as an unlimited disk backend.

Getting Started

Check out the "Getting Started" page here. This should be enough to get you going.

The documentation is still under construction and is subject to change! If you have any questions in the meantime, please open an issue.

Features

Very, very fast. I regularly download & watch 100+GB 4K movies from the Plex server with no issues.
Automatically gets around the 750GB/day upload limit, and 400,000 file limit in Google Drive by switching between service accounts and team drives.
All in one place. If you need to delete everything, or back everything up, you're just dealing with one folder.
Has all the random software and stuff you'll need (Well, I'm working on it).
Walks you through various optimisations to make your life easier.
Requires little to no maintenance once configured.
Doesn't destroy your disk IO by trying to move giant files between docker volumes.

Motivation

There are several other attempts at this, such as Cloudbox and PGBlitz, however I found these setups a little lacking in certain areas.

They require an entire VM or machine dedicated to it
They aren't fully dockerized, it mangles the host machine and places config/installation all over the place, making it difficult to back up or fully utilise machine resources
They regularly have rookie mistakes such as moving data between two Docker volumes, causing unneccessary high disk I/O
They make too many assumptions about your current setup, and make it difficult to change (Well, so does mine, but it's my setup so I'm allowed to be a hypocrite)

This setup has one gigantic shared folder named shared. It's set up with Rclone union mounts so that programs like Sonarr, Radarr, Medusa etc. all believe that the downloading and gdrive media directories are on the same filesystem (because they are!). This severely reduces I/O compared to moving things between volumes. There's then some clever volume mapping so all the programs have matched up directories even though they're technically pointed to different places.

FAQ

Q: How much RAM/CPU/Disk space do I need?

A: This is hard to say. I have 32gb on my VM, but I also have a much larger collection than most so Rclone uses a lot of RAM. Rclone has fairly high limits in its current setup so may run out of memory on machines with less than 16gb - I may include some options to reduce that if needed.

In terms of CPU, it depends on how much you're downloading and whether you're using usenet or torrenting. I wouldn't advise using a Pi 1 for it, but it might run okay on a Pi 4 if you're only downloading a couple films a day or something.

For disk space, you need space to store incomplete downloads and cache them before they're downloaded, so it depends on what you're downloading. I personally run the entire setup on two raid 0 SSDs for high disk speeds, since essentially they're just caches before uploading.

Q: Why are most of the containers on the host network?

A: You'd be surprised how much CPU a bandwith-heavy container can use using the Docker proxy (especially for something like Sabnzbd). It just makes sense to allow the heavy stuff to bridge straight to the host, which also comes with its own set of connectivity challenges. Also, each open port would be a proxy process, so having a large range for torrenting would suck.

Q: How do I disable some of the services I don't want/need?

A: You can edit the .env file (after you've made a copy of .env.template) and disable any service by changing it from a 1 to a 0. eg to disable LazyLibrarian, you could add lazylibrarian_enabled=0.

Q: There are some extra settings in the service interface that you don't mention! What do I do?!

A: That's intentional. The defaults for whatever I don't mention are usually fine. If I included all of the config options, it would take too long to configure.

Q: Why is there a custom container for most services?

Traktarr/Bazarr times out listing movies/TV after 30/60 seconds. I edit it so it times out after 5 minutes instead, as sometimes Sonarr/Radarr's APIs can lag.
I symlink Sonarr/Radarr's logs to stdout, to make it easier to view their logs
The rest of the services contain healthcheck scripts that check that the mount is active, and the web UI is up.

You can see the containers in Makeshift/Marauder-Containers.

Q: Why Plex as opposed to Emby/Jellyfin/Serviio/Whatever?

A: Jellyfin's Chromecast support is iffy at best, especially with subtitles (I watch anime on my Chromecast, deal with it). Emby has similar issues with casting and subtitles but is probably otherwise the least-worst offering. Serviio is a little feature bare. Plex, as much hacking as it requires to get to work, and as absolutely freaking terrible as its new interface is, does work once it's set up properly, and handles the abuse I throw at it fairly well.

Q: Wait, you automatically switch team drives? Won't that cause duplicates?

A: Nope, I fixed that in #4.