This role will install the Transmission Bittorrent client. Bittorrent is a Peer-to-peer file sharing network. Transmission allows you to manage torrent downloads from a web interface. Torrents will be downloaded to the server, and can be accessed them using file transfer services (SFTP, Nextcloud...) - also known as a Seedbox.
See meta/main.yml
# playbook.yml
- hosts: my.CHANGEME.org
roles:
- nodiscc.xsrv.common # (optional) base server setup, hardening, firewall, bruteforce prevention
- nodiscc.xsrv.monitoring # (optional) system/server monitoriong and health checks
- nodiscc.xsrv.backup # (optional) automatic backups of download/torrent directory
- nodiscc.xsrv.apache # (required in the standard configuration) webserver/reverse proxy, SSL certificates
- nodiscc.xsrv.transmission
# required variables
# ansible-vault edit host_vars/my.example.org/my.example.org.vault.yml
transmission_username: "CHANGEME"
transmission_password: "CHANGEME20"See defaults/main.yml for all configuration variables
- The Web interface can be used from a web browser.
- Downloaded files can be accessed over SFTP (a link to the downloads directory is created in the admin user's home directory).
- If the nextcloud role is installed, you may mount the downloads directory as an External Storage
See the included rsnapshot configuration for the backup role.
To restore a backup:
# reinstall transmission by running the playbook/transmission role
xsrv deploy
# stop the transmission-daemon service
xsrv shell
sudo systemctl stop transmission-daemon
# Restore the data directory
rsync -avP /var/backups/rsnapshot/daily.0/localhost/var/lib/transmission-daemon/.config /var/lib/transmission-daemon/
rsync -avP /var/backups/rsnapshot/daily.0/localhost/var/lib/transmission-daemon/info /var/lib/transmission-daemon/
# restart the transmission-daemon service
xsrv shell
sudo systemctl start transmission-daemontransmission - setup transmission bittorrent client