I'm happy enough to seed til kingdom come, but I'm not aware of any facility that allows this with the 'Arrs.
Is there a way to continue seeding after download is completed, and also after the files have been moved and renamed to conform to whatever convention you have in place that the media players can pick up?
I currently have them continuing for 3x ratio in the downloads folder but that's duplicating files for who knows how long, and I don't have an enormous amount of space.
Can the torrent client be hooked back to the files under their new names, and can it be automated?
Sonarr/Radarr can be set up to use hardlinks instead of copying files. That way the file will appear in both places but it will only take up the storage space a single time. I believe it's one of the advanced options under media management.
Given that it's not enabled makes me think that they've got some sort of weird setup like network drives or separate mounts (Docker?) or gasp they're running the *arrs on Windows.
Well, that or they just didn't notice that hardlinks were already working.
one caveat is the need for *rr apps to have direct access to the storage filesystem, and not connect through some filesharing protocol (smb, NFS, etc..) afaik. ISCSI might be good since it's presented as an actual system drive, speculating.
I just set *arr to not delete media after it copies it into my library and then I have qBittorrent set to remove and delete torrents once I hit the seed ratio I have defined.
This does take double the storage while I continue seeding but I have plenty of extra so I haven't worried about it.
It probably doesnt. Its using hard linking by default. You have files in both folders but they take space only for one. You have to delete both to free up space