Alternate download path outside of the YTDL-Material root folder?

[JasonInOH]

Hello - new GH and Docker user here... Wondering if someone can point me in the right direction.

I'm running an Ubuntu 22.04 VM in Hyper-V with Docker and Portainer, and I have some other simpler apps working like Mealie so I have the basics down.

I also have a TrueNAS and want the default downloads from this app to go there. I have it partially working using a mount command in fstab mapping an SMB share on the TrueNAS to:

/var/lib/docker/overlay2/containername/merged/app/video/mnt/ytdl

Of course I used video/mnt/ytdl/ in the settings for the download path in the app, and it works! Videos save there and the thumbnails work and everything, but it doesn't survive a host VM reboot, the thumbnails won't come back / videos won't play. The mount is successfully remounted for GUID 1000 which matches the container, just doesn't work.

So I made /mnt/ytdl and did a symbolic link to:

/var/lib/docker/overlay2/containername/merged/app/video/ytdl

...but that doesn't work at all - it won't download to a sym link I guess.

Any ideas on how to overcome this? How do I specify a path in the app that is outside of it's native root path of /var/lib/docker/overlay2/containername/merged/app/video/

After a reboot, and trying to access a video from the app which fails to play or show thumbnail, the log shows:

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2023-10-07T20:04:15.327Z ERROR: File video/mnt/ytdl/video.mp4 could not be found! UID: f06b2d3d-a456-4ee6-899d-6928f365c109, ID: Road Test： video
Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, stat 'video/mnt/ytdl/video.mp4'
at Object.statSync (node:fs:1538:3)
at Object.statSync (/app/node_modules/graceful-fs/polyfills.js:308:16)
at /app/app.js:1647:21 {
�
errno: -2,
syscall: 'stat',
code: 'ENOENT',
path: 'video/mnt/ytdl/video.mp4'

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Any tips would be greatly appreciated! : )