Synology DS220 DSM 7

[RyanGuyCode]

I have the below configuration, and everything starts just fine, and I'm able to download... however, I have 1 volume and for some reason, the way I have set up my system, the "complete" path still ends up inside the /data/config directory on the docker, rather than on one of the separate shared paths as configured. The only way I see the downloads is by connecting to the container and finding it in the filesystem there.

I'm not sure I'm understanding how to change the path effectively. I am on the "latest". This is how I built the stack.
Do I need to add my download/incomplete path differently to override the settings.json?

version: '3.3'
services:
transmission-openvpn:
cap_add:
- NET_ADMIN
volumes:
- '/volume1/docker/transmission/data:/config'
- '/volume1/data/transmission/downloads:/downloads'
- '/volume1/data/transmission/incomplete:/incomplete'
environment:
- OPENVPN_PROVIDER=NORDVPN
- CREATE_TUN_DEVICE=true
- NORDVPN_COUNTRY=US
- OPENVPN_USERNAME=username
- OPENVPN_PASSWORD=password
- LOCAL_NETWORK=192.168.0.0/16,10.26.0.0/24
- TZ=America/Chicago
- OPENVPN_OPTS=--inactive 3600 --ping 10 --ping-exit 60
- restart=always
- dns=8.8.8.8
- dns=4.4.4.4
logging:
driver: json-file
options:
max-size: 10m
ports:
- '9091:9091'
image: haugene/transmission-openvpn

[pkishino]

Yes, you need to set the transmission values for the folders, see here:
http://haugene.github.io/docker-transmission-openvpn/config-options/
Plus, you haven’t set your :/data mount as per default..

[pkishino]

I think you are confusing some docker concepts with the app configs here..
the volume mounts can be whatever you want..they are there to expose your local file system to the docker container. This way, if you expose a folder there you can access it outside AND inside the container, the mapping specifies where to mount the folder inside the container..
anyway, for your case you are overcomplicating things.
all you need is:

volumes:
- /volume1/docker/transmission/data:/config
- /volume1/data/transmission/downloads:/data

then remove the others as you would be using defaults anyway..but if you want to set them just set like this:

- TRANSMISSION_HOME=/config/transmission-home
- TRANSMISSION_DOWNLOAD_DIR=/data/downloads
- TRANSMISSION_INCOMPLETE_DIR=/data/incomplete
- TRANSMISSION_WATCH_DIR=/data/watch

for transmission config variables..https://github.com/transmission/transmission/blob/main/docs/Environment-Variables.md

[RyanGuyCode]

i see. yes, I think it was a conceptual problem. Thanks. I'll review and test

[RyanGuyCode]

@pkishino Ok, so I did make those changes, it seems unstable, at this point, but the logs aren't giving me enough information to work with. Is this a case, that I need to play with those env variables?

version: '3.3'
services:
transmission-openvpn:
cap_add:
- NET_ADMIN
volumes:
- /volume1/docker/transmission/data:/config
- /volume1/data/transmission/downloads:/data
environment:
- OPENVPN_PROVIDER=NORDVPN
- CREATE_TUN_DEVICE=true
- NORDVPN_COUNTRY=US
- OPENVPN_USERNAME=
- OPENVPN_PASSWORD=
- LOCAL_NETWORK=192.168.0.0/16,10.26.0.0/24
- TZ=America/Chicago
- OPENVPN_OPTS=--inactive 3600 --ping 10 --ping-exit 60
- TRANSMISSION_HOME=/config/transmission-home
- TRANSMISSION_DOWNLOAD_DIR=/data/downloads
- TRANSMISSION_INCOMPLETE_DIR=/data/incomplete
- restart=always
- dns=8.8.8.8
- dns=4.4.4.4
- PUID=1026
- PGID=100
logging:
driver: json-file
options:
max-size: 10m
restart: always
ports:
- '9091:9091'
image: haugene/transmission-openvpn

[pkishino]

Can you check if you have enabled the following setting for transmission? Check in the settings file or in the UI:
start-added-torrents
default is True but might have set it to false

[RyanGuyCode]

@pkishino Thanks! I think part of the issue was share permissions! Thanks for the hand! I'm smarter by 10% after this!