docker-filebot
This is a Docker container for running FileBot, a media file organizer. Drop files into the input directory, and they'll be cleaned up and moved to the output directory.
Usage
This docker image is available as a trusted build on the docker index.
Run:
sudo docker run --name=FileBot -d -v /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime -v /config/dir/path:/config:rw -v /input/dir/path:/input -v /output/dir/path:/output:rw coppit/filebot
With the default configuration, files written to the input directory will be renamed and copied to the output directory. It is recommended that you do not overlap your input and output directories. FileBot will end up re-processing files that it already processed, and generally make a mess of things.
To check the status, run:
docker logs FileBot
When the container detects a change to the input directory, it will wait up to 60 seconds for changes to stop for 5 seconds. FileBot will be run if the directory stabilizes for 5 seconds, or if the 60 second maximum wait time elapses.
Configuration
When run for the first time, a script named filebot.sh will be created in the config dir, and the container will exit.
Edit this file, customizing how you want FileBot to run. For example, you might want to change the file rename
formatting. Then restart the container.
While editing and testing your filebot.sh, keep in mind that FileBot (actually AMC) will not re-process files. Delete amc-exclude-list.txt in your config directory, then write a file into the input directory to get FileBot to re-process your files.
After you gain confidence in how the container is running, you may want to change the action from "copy" to "rename". FileBot will move the files from the input to the output directory, then clean up any "leftover junk" in the input directory. If you're going to do this, then it's also probably a good idea to store temporary files and incomplete downloads in a different directory than the input directory, just in case FileBot decides to move them.
By default, FileBot will create files using user ID 0 (typically root) and group ID 0 (typically root), and with a umask
of 0022. If you wish to change this, set the USER_ID, GROUP_ID, and UMASK environment variables to the right
values from your host system. You can find the IDs using the "id" command. For example, for the user "nobody", it would be
id -u nobody and id -g nobody. You can get the umask for a user like "nobody" by running su -l nobody -c umask.
Updates to filebot.sh
Later, when you update the container, it may exit with this message in the log:
ERROR: The container's filebot.sh is newer than the one in /config. Copying the new script to /config/filebot.sh.new. Compare your filebot.sh and filebot.sh.new, being sure to copy over the VERSION line. Then restart the container.
This happens because some bugfix or something went into filebot.sh. Rather than deleting your filebot.sh (and losing
any hard work you put into it), the container will write filebot.sh.new. It's your job to merge the two files. You can
delete filebot.sh.new when you're done. NOTE: You must increase the VERSION even if you make no other changes. This
will let the container know that you performed the merge. It will then start normally.