Synology NFS share for media in SparkBox

Posted by complicatedlandlord

Hello everyone, I have installed SparkBox on a Linux VM and would prefer not to store the media files locally on the VM, but rather on an NFS share on my Synology. The NFS share is already mounted on the Linux VM and works in principle. My question is: what is the best way to integrate the NFS share into SparkBox so that the various containers (e.g. for media management/streaming) can access the relevant folders? My current setup: SparkBox is running on a Linux VM The Synology acts as a NAS The required media folder is mounted via NFS on the Linux VM I would like to pass specific folders from the NFS share to the relevant Docker containers It is important to me that the solution continues to work properly even after SparkBox updates Is there a recommended way to do this within SparkBox? Should I mount the NFS share on the host and then pass it on to the containers via a bind mount, or is there a better or intended method within SparkBox?

1 replies

Chris wrote:

You've already done the right first step, and you don't need to hand-wire any bind mounts. SparkBox has one setting for this — Media Root. Point it at a folder on your NFS share and SparkBox passes it to Jellyfin, Sonarr, Radarr and the rest automatically. On the VM, open the settings file: sudo nano /opt/sparkbox/.env. Find the line starting MEDIAROOT= and change it to a folder on the NFS mount, like MEDIAROOT=/mnt/nfs/sparkbox-media. Save (Ctrl+O, Enter, Ctrl+X), then run sudo sparkbox up. SparkBox creates the Movies, TV and Music folders there and points the apps at them. It lives in your .env file, which SparkBox updates don't touch, so it keeps working across updates. Just make sure the NFS share itself is set to auto-mount on boot.