Best way to configure secondary 'completed' directories?

[philiprenich]

First off, I love how simple this Docker setup was to get running. (The only issue I had was forgetting to turn off the non-Dockerised VPN my server was already running 🙈) Many thanks to the maintainers!

I have mounted /data to a /transmission on my drive. As a sibling folders, unrelated to this Docker container, I have /files and /stuff. What's the best set up so that I can change the location of downloaded items from /data/completed (or rather /transmission/completed to /files or /stuff? I don't want to use /:/data as my volume.

Initially, I thought I would symlink the sibling folders, but that ran in to permission issues that I wasn't quite sure how to solve.

What I am currently doing is adding extra mount points to my volumes with /files:/data/files and /stuff:/data/stuff That seems to work, though I'm a little concerned about the Docker container having full access to those (maybe that's unavoidable regardless of the setup?).

Alongside this, files downloaded by Transmission are owned by root. Is there a way to set up the container so that the files are owned by my user on the host?

[pkishino]

Read the documentation, it explains how to set user/folder permissions/set folders etc

[philiprenich]

Gah, I did miss that user/group config setting. My bad! I'm a little unsure what the ramifications of altering GLOBAL_APPLY_PERMISSIONS are. What are the default set of permissions and what would they be w/out using this? Or is that in relation to configuring Transmissions umask settings?

Is my docker setup for volume mount points sensible though? Details around ways to do that I couldn't see in the docs.

Thanks (and sorry to be the guy who required a "rtfm" response 🤦🏽)

[rhythmrice]

Read the documentation, it explains how to set user/folder permissions/set folders etc

where can i find that? ive spent hours trying to get exactly that setup

[philiprenich]

@rhythmrice Here's the config for users/groups: https://haugene.github.io/docker-transmission-openvpn/config-options/#user_configuration_options

In my docker-compose file I am mounting multiple volumes, the container's /data folder, /config folder and then a couple others /data/x and /data/y which map to where I want to easily be able to move. Now rather than a file going to /data/completed I can say /data/x.

Additionally, I have the PUID and PGID set so that the transmission user on the host will own the files