Downloader plugin?

  • I have a hard time understanding what the openmediavault-downloader plugin does?
    I'm searching for a plugin that allows me to download anything from the web (not torrents or nzbs as I have plugins for that). But maybe if I want a big .zip-file or .exe to be downloaded to my NAS. This way it is downloaded and ready when I boot up my other computer.


    Is this what the Downloader plugin does?


    Or is there any more suitable plugin for this?

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    Did you try the downloader plugin? That is exactly what it does. If you choose youtube-dl, you can download video from various sites. If you choose aria2 or curl, it will download the file you specify in url form.

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    Yes, you always have to use a filename and it uses whatever filename you type in the box. youtube-dl definitely needs the extension because it performs different operations based on the extension.

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    Fixed? I assume you mean the folder browser issue that we fixed and moved to omv-extras back at the end of August?

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  • What does the symlink feature do?

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    I love that feature. So nice to be able to create/delete/list all your symlinks in once place and in the web gui.


    I don't understand the use for it?
    Sorry for asking, want to learn!

  • symlinks are used for many things. It is when you want folders/files to be somewhere else on your system. Say you have database folders in separate locations on your different drive or even on system drive. Then you want to make a backup of all your databases in one job. You could make a shared folder databasebackup and then create symlinks to that folder. Then backup the shared folder with all the symlinks us rsync with the -L option. Then it would backup all the databases at once. Here is another example is you wanted to back multiple shares in one job:


    USB Backup Plugin: Backing up multiple shares with one Job

  • Another useful thing I use it for is when I upload to a samba share I might want the file accessible without going to /media/uuid/sharename. I have a shared folder uploads at /media/uuid/uploads. I create a symlink to it in the root of my system drive at /uploads. Normally to do this you would do:
    cd / (to be at root of system drive
    ln -s /media/uuid/uploads uploads ( where uuid is the number for the data drive where the uploads shared folder is located)


    Then to access the file I upload via the samba share I do not have to go to:
    /media/uuid/uploads


    Once I am in putty I just:
    cd /uploads


    Then I have access to the files without messing with the long path to /media/uuid/uploads


    Symlinks are useful with services too. You might access to a given folder/files/binary/executables and the program doesn't have access to it because it is in the wrong location. There may be a problem because a data drive is mounted noexec. Symlinks are used many times to solve these problems.

  • If you look at the picture above for uploads. Notice the destination. This location /upload cannot be selected with the tree folder at the right. The destination uploads symlink does not exist yet. In the destination I am putting the name of the symlink and the location. So I manually entered this in the Destination field:
    /uploads


    I selected the Source shared folder with the tree by clicking on the folder on the right side of the Source field.


    Hope that gives you some ideas.

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