Dyskusja If I uninstall the rTorrent Pro app will it delete my torrents?

[Steven T Gravel]

I would like to uninstall rTorrent Pro from my NAS but keep the torrents. Is that what happens by default, or will it delete all my torrents?

Thank you.

 

[Silas Mariusz]

Will keep torrent and saved sessions

 

[Steven T Gravel]

Thank you

 

[Silas Mariusz]

BTW: May I know your feedback?
Why do you want to uninstall Rtorrent?

 

[Steven T Gravel]

Your software has been great - thank you for all your effort and responsiveness. I'm actually pretty nostalgic about it and conflicted about moving on. With that said, I am segmenting my network more and getting my NAS away from the Internet as much as I can. Literally treating it as storage that is attached to the network and nothing (or at least little) more. Running apps on it doesn't really fit with what I am trying to do at this point. QNAP's security track record has me a little spooked.

Again, thank you for a great app!

 

[jerry1333]

QNAP's security track record has me a little spooked.

I'm using QNAP devices for over 4 years now for myself and my clients and never had security issue (or i don't know about it <rotfl>) so it's not that bad as some people try to show it.

 

[Silas Mariusz]

Well I’m using QNAP NAS from 2008
Until 2013 I was exposing many ports (don’t laugh now) even Samba
I never been attacked. However within ransomware era I was bit worry. So decided to use VPN. But I’m still using QNAP NAS for several things like:
- Rtorrent
- Plex
- exposing QNAP’s Web Sever to host files.qnap.net.pl/repo
- running Debian VM which is hosting this forum

I don’t see the difference between Debian and QNAP

Both have security issues

„Server has to be a server,
And its admin has to be an Admin”
- written by me, 16 years experience with QNAP

 

[Steven T Gravel]

I agree with both of you that QNAP's perceived "vulnerability" has been overblown by the media for the sake of page views and ad revenue. I think the chances of exploitation are relatively small.

I don't mean any disrespect and would not try to dissuade anyone from making full use of their NAS in whatever way they choose - that's what they're there for.

I would say that I think the difference between many *nix distros and QNAP is that QNAP has sometimes been a little slower to acknowledge and address (i.e. patch) vulnerabilities. The vast, vast majority of users see no negative impact whatsoever from this. You might disagree with my opinion and that's valid.

With that said, I have worked on/led cybersecurity incident response teams for the last 10+ years, and worked in IT for a lot longer than that. While I have yet to personally work an incident where the root cause was attributed to a QNAP product, I have seen plenty of incidents where vendors hadn't addressed flaws in a timely manner and threat actors took advantage of that.

I could probably leave things as they are on my home network and be just fine, but this is a choice I made. I didn't state my reason in my original post because my motivation has nothing to do with your app and because I didn't want to unintentionally dissuade anyone from using it. I probably should have PM'd my response to your question to keep it off the forum.

Apologies if I ruffled any feathers! Signing off, and thanks again for all your hard work.