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qBittorrent in docker
guide-by-example
Purpose & Overview
WORK IN PROGRESS
WORK IN PROGRESS
WORK IN PROGRESS
Torrents downloader.
qBittorrent is a cross-platform free and open-source BitTorrent client.
The interface is clone of the popular uTorrent.
Major feature is the build in torrent search on various trackers.
Written mostly in C++, using libtorrent under the hood.
Files and directory structure
/mnt/
└── smalldisk/
└── torrents/
/home/
└── ~/
└── docker/
└── qbittorrent/
├── qbittorrent-config/
├── .env
└── docker-compose.yml
/mnt/bigdisk/...
- a mounted storage sharejellyfin-config/
- configuration.env
- a file containing environment variables for docker composedocker-compose.yml
- a docker compose file, telling docker how to run the containers
You only need to provide the files.
The directories are created by docker compose on the first run.
docker-compose
Dockerhub linuxserver/bookstack example compose.
docker-compose.yml
services:
qbittorrent:
image: lscr.io/linuxserver/qbittorrent
container_name: qbittorrent
hostname: qbittorrent
restart: unless-stopped
env_file: .env
volumes:
- ./qbittorrent-config:/config
- /mnt/smalldisk/torrents:/downloads
expose:
- 8080
ports:
- 6881:6881
- 6881:6881/udp
- 8080:8080
networks:
default:
name: $DOCKER_MY_NETWORK
external: true
.env
# GENERAL
MY_DOMAIN=example.com
DOCKER_MY_NETWORK=caddy_net
TZ=Europe/Bratislava
WEBUI_PORT=8080
PUID=1000
PGID=1000
All containers must be on the same network.
Which is named in the .env
file.
If one does not exist yet: docker network create caddy_net
Reverse proxy
Caddy is used, details
here.
Caddyfile
q.{$MY_DOMAIN} {
reverse_proxy qbittorrent:8080
}
First run
Default login: admin@admin.com
// password
Specifics of my setup
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no long term use yet
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no gpu, so no experience with hw transcoding
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media files are stored and shared on trunas scale VM and mounted to the docker host using systemd mounts, instead of fstab or autofs.
/etc/systemd/system/mnt-bigdisk.mount
[Unit] Description=12TB truenas mount [Mount] What=//10.0.19.19/Dataset-01 Where=/mnt/bigdisk Type=cifs Options=ro,username=ja,password=qq,file_mode=0700,dir_mode=0700,uid=1000 DirectoryMode=0700 [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target
/etc/systemd/system/mnt-bigdisk.automount
[Unit] Description=myshare automount [Automount] Where=/mnt/bigdisk [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target
automount on boot -
sudo systemctl start mnt-bigdisk.automount
Update
Manual image update:
docker-compose pull
docker-compose up -d
docker image prune
Backup and restore
Backup
Using borg that makes daily snapshot of the entire directory.
Restore
- down the bookstack containers
docker-compose down
- delete the entire bookstack directory
- from the backup copy back the bookstack directory
- start the containers
docker-compose up -d
Backup of just user data
Users data daily export using the
official procedure.
For bookstack it means database dump and backing up several directories
containing user uploaded files.
Daily borg run
takes care of backing up the directories.
So only database dump is needed.
The created backup sqlite3 file is overwritten on every run of the script,
but that's ok since borg is making daily snapshots.
Create a backup script
Placed inside bookstack
directory on the host
bookstack-backup-script.sh
#!/bin/bash
# CREATE DATABASE DUMP, bash -c '...' IS USED OTHERWISE OUTPUT > WOULD TRY TO GO TO THE HOST
docker container exec bookstack-db bash -c 'mysqldump -u $MYSQL_USER -p$MYSQL_PASSWORD $MYSQL_DATABASE > $MYSQL_DIR/BACKUP.bookstack.database.sql'
the script must be executable - chmod +x bookstack-backup-script.sh
Cronjob
Running on the host, so that the script will be periodically run.
su
- switch to rootcrontab -e
- add new cron job0 22 * * * /home/bastard/docker/bookstack/bookstack-backup-script.sh
runs it every day at 22:00crontab -l
- list cronjobs to check
Restore the user data
Assuming clean start, first restore the database before running the app container.
- start only the database container:
docker-compose up -d bookstack-db
- copy
BACKUP.bookstack.database.sql
inbookstack/bookstack-db-data/
- restore the database inside the container
docker container exec --workdir /config bookstack-db bash -c 'mysql -u $MYSQL_USER -p$MYSQL_PASSWORD $MYSQL_DATABASE < BACKUP.bookstack.database.sql'
- now start the app container:
docker-compose up -d
- let it run so it creates its file structure
- down the containers
docker-compose down
- in
bookstack/bookstack-data/www/
replace directoriesfiles
,images
,uploads
and the file.env
with the ones from the BorgBackup repository - start the containers:
docker-compose up -d
- if there was a major version jump, exec in to the app container and run
php artisan migrate
docker container exec -it bookstack /bin/bash
cd /var/www/html/
php artisan migrate
Again, the above steps are based on the official procedure.