SABnzbd in Docker on a Synology NAS

Update	Date
Added Docker Compose details Added new folder mappings to ensure atomic moves and Hard-linking	03/05/2021
Guide re-written and updated with DSM7 screenshots	01/08/2021

In this guide I will take you through the steps to get SABnzbd up and running in Docker.

In order for you to successfully use this guide please complete the two proceeding guides

• Step 1: Directory Setup Guide
• Step 2: Setting up a restricted Docker user

Downloading the Container

In the majority of my guides I use the containers made by LinuxServer, these have very good documentation and are very well maintained so should any issues arise there is a group of people to ask.

Open up Docker within DSM and navigate to the ‘Registry’ section and search for sabnzbd in the search box. Right click and download the Linuxserver version.

When asked make sure you choose ‘Latest’ from the list of available versions

You can check the status of the download over on the ‘Image’ tab.

Setting up the container

In Docker click on the ‘Image’ tab, in the list of your containers select the ‘Linuxserver Sabnzbd’ image and click on ‘Launch’

You will now see the initial setup screen, if you want to you can change the name of the container to something else, or if you are using a number of services on a machine with a limited amount of memory or lower powered CPU you can also setup resource limitations, but this is generally not required.

Next up we are going to click on the ‘Advanced Settings’ button, this will take you to a new window with a number of tabs which we are going to work through.

On the first tab enable ‘Auto Restart’ this will ensure SABnzbd will automatically start up whenever you reboot your NAS.

Volumes / Mounts

We can now move onto the volume tab in which we will be specifying the directories where SABnzbd will store its configuration files and where to download to.

Click on Add Folder, click on the docker folder and create a new sub-folder called ‘sabnzbd’ select this folder and click ‘select’

Click Add Folder again and this time select the ‘data/usenet’ folder and click Select.

Now we have added these we need to specify where they will be mounted inside the container. As per the screenshot/table below:

File/Folder	Mount path
docker/sabnzbd	/config
data/usenet	/data/usenet

Network

We are not going to be specifying specific ports for SABnzbd to use as we want to keep things simple, tick the ‘Use the same network as Docker Host’

Links / Port Settings

You do not need to setup anything on these tabs.

Environment Variables (PGID,  PUID and Timezone)

Next we are going to setup a couple of environment variables that docker will use to allow the container access to our files and folders and also to tell it where we live in the world.

Click the Add button, and fill in the following details as per the table/screenshot, you will need to do one at a time.

variable	Value
PUID	The UID you obtained in the user setup guide
PGID	The GID you obtained in the user setup guide
TZ	Your timezone wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones

Almost done

You have now completed the setup of the container, click on Apply to move back to the initial settings screen and then click next, you will be shown an overall summary of the settings we have specified, this is a good time to double check everything is correct. Finally click on Done and the container should start to boot.

Some final steps

SABnzbd will now be running on port 8080 you can connect to it by going to the IP address of your NAS with that port

e.g 192.168.0.40:8080

Once you have completed the setup wizard, go into the settings and amend your folders to the following

Setting	Path
Temporary Download Folder	/data/usenet/intermediate
Completed Download Folder	/data/usenet/completed
Watched Folder	/data/usenet/nzb

Docker Compose

You can use the below code saved as sabnzbd.yml in the docker share, this will do the entire process above in one quick command via SSH. Ensuring you change the variables to your own

version: "3.2"
services:
  linuxserver-sabnzbd:
    image: linuxserver/sabnzbd:latest
    container_name: sabnzbd
    environment:
      - PUID=YOURUID
      - PGID=YOURGID
      - TZ=Your/Timezone
    volumes:
      - /volume1/docker/sabnzbd:/config
      - /volume1/data/usenet:/data/usenet
    network_mode: host
    restart: unless-stopped

sudo docker-compose -f /volume1/docker/sabnzbd.yml up -d --remove-orphans

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