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Delay startup when installed as service on WHS?

Posted: March 27th, 2011, 10:33 am
by mont
Hello
I have installed the beta (just updated to 0.6.0b4) as a service on my WHS - runs smoothly so far. Only problem sometimes is: for speed and HD-usage reasons, I have defined a download location for the download folder OUTSIDE the shared video folder, only the final extraction folder sits inside the Video-share on my WHS.
Since this download folder sits on a dedicated eSATA-disc (with its own drive letter T:\), sometimes when booting the WHS, the start of the SABnzbd-service is faster than Windows providing the external drive T:\ . Then, SABnzbd puts all downloads, even incomplete ones, into a download-folder it creates itself on d:\shares. That of course, I want to avoid.

Is there any way (and how can I reach that) to delay the start of both the SABnzbd- and the helper-service until WHS has fully booted and all drive letters are assigned?  I think, a delay of 120 seconds after starting the booting would be appropriate to be on the safe side...

Thanks for the help!

Re: Delay startup when installed as service on WHS?

Posted: March 27th, 2011, 11:52 am
by shypike
The alternative is to start it as a scheduled task.
http://wiki.sabnzbd.org/windows-scheduled-task