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:

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;
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?

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[–] podbrushkin@mander.xyz 3 points 1 day ago (7 children)

I can move, but next time when I will launch qbt without external HDD accessible, those torrents will gain error status "Files not found" and will require a long verification process. This is what I'm trying to avoid.

I will check how categories can help managing this, thx

[–] quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 day ago (6 children)

It happens to me every time I forget to mount the second drive, I just close qbittorrent mount the drive and start again, it does the regular check that does every time it launches and all good.

[–] podbrushkin@mander.xyz 2 points 1 day ago (4 children)

"regular check" - do you mean verification? Verification takes a lot of time, verifying 10s of gigs will take a lot of time. What do you forget, stopping torrents?

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