Sabnzbd

I love my NAS but because I tried to save a little money it does not [run SABnzbd](/blog/2011/02/28/optimize-your-synology-for-downloading/) very well. I've tried different approaches but find myself ending up downloading on OSX as it writes to a network share on my NAS. Too bad, but I'm archiving this one under the section first world problems. The challenge I have now though, is when my Mac goes to sleep, my mounts disappear, and SABnzbd writes to the local filesystem instead. Cause as far as my downloading program could tell, it was already writing to a local filesystem, so it will just keep on doing that until my Mac's disk is at 100%. I wrote a little script to prevent that. You may not be running SABnzbd, but there are obviously many other use cases where you want a network mount to persist. Especially if you are automating something outside of the GUI. With some small adjustments this could work for Linux/NFS/SMB as well.

I recently bought a NAS so my data is safe & available, with the benefit of being low power / noise / heat. I've considered Netgear, QNAP, but decided to go for a Synology as it was affordable, still had a big community, decent reviews & Time Machine support.

The Synology ships with a Download Station but it's not remotely as advanced as [SABnzbd](https://sabnzbd.org/). What I mostly miss is automatic par & unpacking of its downloads. Here's how to fix that.