sBorg 4.0 Guide

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Welcome to sBorg v4.0 Instruction Manual Here, we will try to give a detailed explanation on how to use your sBorg to the fullest. As you know, sBorg is not just any other transloading script, it is the ultimate uploaders tool! Why? Simply put, there is none like it! If we start listing our number of features, you will fall asleep! Still, we have put all the options in this manual in hopes it will help you learn to use sBorg the way it was meant to be used!

This is the first option you see when you open sBorg. You can click “Advanced Options” to expand the bottom bar to reveal more options of sBorg. For now, we’ll stick to the basic descriptions of sBorg.

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The Navigation:

1. Transload – The index page. This handles all the file transloads for sBorg. Options in this page will be explained in details later on. 2. Logs – All the upload/download logs and posts are saved here. You can access this page at a later time for reference of what you posted. All the logs are saved in a php file in “logs” folder. 3. FileMan – This file manager allows you to browse the “files” folder where all of your downloaded files are saved. Great for downloading to your own PC or managing your files such as taking screenshots or unRARing your files. There is also basic file management features such as copy/move/delete/rename/upload and so on. 4. Post Editor – This is where you create your post templates with the provided variables. Customize your post the way you like as needed for your forum/website. 5. Forums – This is where you can add/remove/edit your forum auto post templates. Detailed explanation of this is also provided later in the page. 6. Setup – This allows you to setup and configure the sBorg, add your own logins and more. This will be explained in details later on. This is also the very first page you see after installing sBorg on your server. 7. sBorg Home – The link to sBorg main website lets you know of the latest upgrades and features and lot more. Visit it from time to time. 8. Manual – Link to the latest sBorg manual. Other version of sBorg manuals will be available in the Manual archive. 9. Changes – Contains a detailed list of changes that occurred during the major upgrades. The minor upgrades are also added to the major upgrade list. 10. Update/Upgrade – This will apply the latest patch to your sBorg. It will NOT cost any licenses. From time to time, the Update will say Upgrade. This means a new version of sBorg was released. This will cost you one license to upgrade, but since licenses are so cheap, it is worth upgrading for the tons of extra features new sBorg versions has. Remember that unless you upgrade to the latest version, updates won’t be available. Note: Links to edit RAR comments file and license checker can be found as buttons on the “Setup” page.

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The Setup Page:

1. Create Login – This is a compulsory field. This will set the default username and password for your sBorg. You will be asked to login after you save your settings. You will stay logged in for 30 days. If anything goes wrong, delete the “accounts.php” file to reset sBorg to its default settings. 2. Download/Upload Accounts – These accounts will be used to download files from different file hosts and then upload to your account. You may enter the same account for both upload and download. You may leave them blank. 3. RapidGen API Key – This is the rapidgen premium link generator. Enter your rapidgen API in the box and you can download your files though Rapidgen if you tick “Use RapidGen Premium Link Gen?” in the index page. 4. Transmission Download – If your transmission web interface is password protected, enter your username and password here. 5. Wordpress Login – Enter your Wordpress username and password here if you want to auto post to your Wordpress blog. 6. Contact Email – This is the email where your post template is sent once the upload is complete. We suggest you avoid using Yahoo or Hotmail email accounts. Gmail or emails hosted on own servers are preferable. 7. Prefix – This is what you want to appear in front of your filename. Most uploaders usually provide their domain on this field. If you enter “mysite.com” then your file “my.movie.2010.dvdrip.xvid.part1.rar” will be renamed to “mysite.com_ my.movie.2010.dvdrip.xvid.part1.rar”.

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8. MTN Screenshot – The number of screenshots for a video file is specified here. If you provide “Cols: 3 Row: 8”, then the video screenshot will contain 3 columns and 8 rows of screenshot, giving you a total of ( 3 x 8 ) = 24 screenshots. 9. Buffer Size – This defines how much data php should load into its memory before writing to disk. If you set it to a high value, sBorg will use more memory but transloading will be faster. If you set this low, transloading will be slow and more CPU will be used. We suggest you play around with the values to find which suites your server best. 10. Progress bar rate – This setting tells how fast the progress bar should update. We have mentioned some predefined values, but feel free to change it and see which suites your server best. Remember setting it too low will slow down sBorg’s transloading and increase page load time, while setting it too high will cause ur browser to time out. 11. Wordpress URL – This is the URL to your Wordpress site’s home page. Example of a Wordpress site would be http://www.sborg.us/site/ for sBorg home page. 12. Torrent download folder – Enter the full path of the folder where your downloaded torrent files are saved. For example, torrentflux download directory can be: /home/somik/public_html/torrentflux/download/somik/ and my uTorrent download folder directory can be: C:\Users\Somik Khan\Documents\utorrent\ 13. User download folder – Enter the full path of a custom download folder. Each directory inside this folder can be uploaded separately. This can also be a secondary torrent folder for a different user. 14. Store – Save the settings. 15. Reset – Remove changes you made. Page 4

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1. Edit RAR comments – Edit the file that contains the RAR comments. This file will be added as RAR comments when you choose to do so. 2. Check licenses available – Check number of licenses you have left. This will not cost you any additional licenses.

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The Index Page:

1. Files To Leech – Provide a set of links to download. This can be a single link or multiple links containing parts of RAR file or even parts of 001 files. Enter each link on a new line and do not leave any links blank in-between the links. These files will be downloaded consecutively. A progress bar will display the progress of file downloads. 2. RapidGen Link Gen - Use rapidgen.net premium link generator to convert the filehost links into direct links and start download (avoids the need to use any filehost download accounts). 3. Advanced Options – This will display additional options for advanced users. This gives tons of options that make’s sBorg so special. You can customize every aspect of your upload with this option. 4. sBorg Template - – Choose a preset template for the files you are downloading. The presets can be saved under “Advanced Options”. The presets contain the following saved options: o Smart Extract o New password for RAR file o UnRAR files o ReRAR the files o Join files o ReRAR size o Unzip files o Lock RAR files o Chage md5 of files o Add comments for ReRAR o Remove useless files o Split completed file o Prefix for files o Split size o Take screenshots o Delete files after upload o Watermark for screenshot o Email when uploading done o Add own files o Popup after upload 5. Post Title – Enter the real name of the file you are transloading here. Logs file and folder name will be saved according to this name. If you are using auto-poster, this will also be the post title. This cannot be blank if you have selected “Auto post”. Page 6

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6. Post Template – Select the post template for posting on wordpress/forum/ucms. Remember that each has its own template format and selecting one for other will not work. You can edit the post templates on Post Editor page. 7. UnRAR Password – If you are downloading RAR files and the RAR is password protected, provide the password here, otherwise leave blank. 8. Remove useless files – Enter the extensions of files you want to remove from the archive. Most common extensions are already there. Remember to follow the format. Note that you can also enter full filename there. 9. Enter name of new RAR file – If you would like to Re-RAR the file with a different name, provide the new name for the RAR file. If you enter “mymovie.2010.xvid” the RAR files will be either “mymovie.2010.xvid.part1.rar” or “mymovie.2010.xvid.rar” depending on the size of each part. 10. Add Prefix – If you have entered a prefix on “Setup” page, it will appear here. You can alter it as you see fit. 11. Remove from filename – If the file’s inside the RAR contains an anything you would like to remove, provide it here. If you would like to remove multiple items, provide them all here separated by a comma ( , ) and do not put any space before or after the comma. For example if the filename contains “othersite.com-movie.2010.xvid.other.uploader.name.avi” then enter this in the text field to be removed: “othersite.com-,.other.uploader.name”. This will make the filename “movie.2010.xvid.avi”. 12. Rename files inside RAR – If you prefer to completely rename the files inside, enter it here. Do not enter a file extension as extensions will be preserved. Enter “my-movie-name-2010” and your movie will be renamed to “my-movie-name-2010.avi”. 13. Split file Size – If you want to split the file ( .001 .002, and so on) files then provide the maximum size of each split here. Please enter this field in megabytes. 14. Archive Size – If you want to create RAR file parts, enter the maximum part size here. Your RAR file will be broken down into .part1.rar .part2.rar and so on. Please enter this field in megabytes.

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15. New password for RAR – If you want to password protect your new RAR file, then provide the password here. Users won’t be able to extract the RAR file without this password. Please provide only characters from “a-z”, “A-Z”, “0-9”, “. - _”. Do not use any special characters. 16. RAR Recovery Record – Set the % of rar recovery record. Default is 10%. Usefull when downloaded file gets corrupted. 17. WP Post Category – If you want to post to your Wordpress blog, enter the category. Leave it blank to post to “Uncategorized”. 18. Cover Image Link – If you want to add a cover image to your post, enter it here. These option is available only when you tick “custom files” option. Remember that if you enter a IMDB link the cover image form IMDB will be replaced by this one. 19. Post Description – This will appear under cover image. If you want to add a little more description for your post, enter it here. 20. Select Forum – If you want to auto post to a forum, you can select your predefined forums here. You can add/remove/edit forums under “Templates” in navigation area. 21. Select Category – This is the forum category you want to post to for that forum. Make sure it exists before clicking it. 22. Megaupload Description – Enter a description for files that are being uploaded to megaupload.com 23. Activate sBorg – You have done your part, now let sBorg know it can start its own processes by clicking this button.

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24. Upload only – This will disable file downloading. It will provide you with dropdown lists of files you have downloaded You can re-upload these files to your selected file hosts. 25. Reupload – These are the files you have downloaded but have choosen not to delete. These are the folders inside sBorg’s “files” folder. You can place your own folders in the “files” folder for uploading aswell. 26. Torrent – These are the torrents you have downloaded. You can choose the directory you want to upload and every file/directory inside the choosen directory will be uploaded. 27. User dir – This is the folder you have selected. You can choose the directory you want to upload and every file/directory inside the choosen directory will be uploaded. 28. Upload torrent – If you have Transmission running on your linux server, you can download torrents using sBorg. Instructions on installing Transmission can be found later in the manual. 29. Torrent uploader – Choose the torrent you want to upload from your computer. 30. Enable AI Smart Extract – This is the smart extraction system of sBorg. It uses a new algorithm to detect file-type and take necessary action. It is able to merge 001 002 003 files, extract RAR files and unzip Zip files. It has deep extraction algorithm which is unique to sBorg, so it can extract “scene releases” and any other types of multi rar/zip/split combinations you can throw at it. 31. Join 001 Files – If you have disabled “Smart Extract” this option will appear. You can choose to join the 001 002 and so on files only by selecting this option. 32. Extract RAR Archives – If you have disabled “Smart Extract” this option will appear. You can choose to extract RAR files only by selecting this option. 33. Extract Zip Archives – If you have disabled “Smart Extract” this option will appear. You can choose to extract Zip files only by selecting this option. 34. ReRAR the files – Choose this to Re-RAR the files. It will also give you option to choose “Archive Size” “Add password to new RAR”, “RAR Compression level” and other RAR options.

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35. Lock the archive – This is only available when you choose Re-RAR the files. This will lock you RAR Archive and won’t allow others to add/remove or edit your RAR file. 36. Add comment from file – This is only available when you choose Re-RAR the files. This will add your RAR file comments from “myrar_comments.txt” file. You can edit this file by going to “Edit” on top navigation. 37. Split into 001 files – If you prefer to split your File into 001 002 and so on files instead, choose this option. This will also give you option to choose “Split file Size”. 38. Change MD5 – If you want to change the md5 hash of a file, you can do so by enabling this option. Note that if you rename the file, its md5 will be auto changed. 39. Delete files after Upload – This will delete the files for the current session after upload. This option will help you save disk space. Disable this if you want to re-upload the files again in future. 40. Add custom files – This option will display two extra fields, namely “Cover image link” and “Post Description”. 41. Auto Post to Wordpress – This option will be checked if you have provided your Wordpress info on “Setup” page. This will allow you to auto post to your Wordpress blog after upload is complete. This will also give you option to choose “Post Title” and “Post Category”. 42. Auto Post to forum – Enable this to automatically post to forums. Remember to select “Forum” and “Category” before continuing. 43. Auto Post to UCMS – Enable this to automatically post to ucms. Remember that the post template you have selected must be in UCMS format. 44. Email after upload – This option will checked if you have provided an email on the setup page. This will send you the post via email when uploading is complete. 45. Popup after upload – This will display a flashing screen along with sound to alert you that uploading is complete. Popups must be enabled for you to use this option. 46. Upload to file hosts – If you want to upload the files you have just downloaded, keep this option checked. If you disable this, you can use sBorg for downloading to your server only and keeping the files there. Page 10

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47. File host options – All the file hosts for which you have provided uploading accounts in the setup page will be checked. Enable/disable the file hosts where you want your files to be uploaded to. A progress bar will be displayed when your files are being uploaded. 48. Add own files – If you have files inside the “myfiles” folder, and you would like to add those files to your RAR archive, select this option. 49. Screenshots – If you would like sBorg to take a screenshot of the video you are uploading and upload the screenshot to an image host, select this option. You can select the number of rows and columns of the screenshot in “Setup” page. This will be auto checked and won’t take any screenshots if no video file is found. 50. Watermark Screenshot – If you want to add text as watermark on your screenshots, provide the text here. No special characters allowed. Your text will appear under the movie information text, over the first image on top left side. 51. Watermark Options – If you want to customize how the watermark is created, tick this option. Visit MTN website on sourceforge.net to know more about the options you can set here. 52. Enter IMDB link – Provide the IMDB link to the movie or TV show you are uploading. sBorg will grab additional information off IMDB and display it in your post. 53. Save sBorg Template – If you want to save your current settings as a template, enter the name of the template. The following settings will be saved: o Remove from filename o Split files o Add own files to archive o Split size o RAR files o Wordpress category o RAR part size o Delete files after upload o Lock RAR files o MTN watermark text o Add comments to RAR file o Popup after upload o New password for RAR file 54. Logout – If you are done using sBorg for today, you can logout here. Page 11

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The Post Editor Page:

1. File Selector – From dropdown, select the file you want to edit. The “myrar_comment” file is not a post template. It is your RAR file comment file. Rests of the files are your Post Templates so select anyone to edit. We have chosen default for this example. 2. Safe File As – This is the name for the file. If you do not change, your current post template will be overridden with the new one. You can use it to “clone” your post templates.

3. Available Variables – These are the variables you can use in your post. For example, if you put %post_title% anywhere in your post template, it will be replaced by your “post title” that you have entered in the Index page. We suggest you use the default template as base and clone it (save it with different file name) to make your own post templates. Note that you do not need to use all of the variables. 4. Edit Field – This is where you type in your post template. Base it on “default” template for best result. Do not override default template unless you know what you are doing. 5. Save – Save the post title with the name you have provided. Saving with a name that exists will override the template. 6. Reset – If you have made changes in this session that you do not want, click reset to reset the forms.

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The Logs Page:

1. Filename – Clicking here once will result the files being arranged according to their name from A to Z order. Clicking again will arrange then by filename from Z to A order. 2. Last Modified – Clicking here once will result the files being arranged according to their last modified time from oldest to newest order. Clicking here again will arrange them from newest to oldest order. 3. These are the log files. Click on them to open in your browser. 4. These are the MP4 templates for the logs. Download and load to your MP4 for posting to multiple sites at once. Note that you must own your own MP4 to use this. 5. If your browser is unable to load the changes to text file you can also download the logs directly by clicking here. 6. Delete both your MP4 template and your txt log files by clicking here. 7. The Delete “All Logs” will delete all text logs and MP4 at one go. 8. Delete “All files” option will empty contents of your “files” folder. 9. Delete “All” will delete everything but sBorg and your settings.

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The FileMan Page:

This is the Advanced File Manager for sBorg. 1. Download – Download the selected file from selected window. 2. Edit – Edit the selected file from selected window. You can edit any file with this text editor. 3. Copy – Copy selected file from selected window to unselected window. You can copy from right window to left window and left window to right window! 4. Move – Same as copy, just delete after copy is done. 5. Rename – Rename the selected file from selected window. 6. Delete – Delete selected file from selected window. To select multiple files, press and hold “Ctrl” while click on the files to delete or to select a lot at one go, press and hold “Shift” and tick the files. 7. Upload – Upload the file from step 8 8. Choose – Choose a file to upload from your harddisk 9. Screenshot – Take a screenshot of the selected file in selected window. Must be a supported video file. 10. UnRAR/UnZip – Extract the RAR/Zip file in the current folder or in its own folder. 11. Password – Enter password for UnRAR/UnZIP. 12. & 13. This is how you know which window is selected. Page 14

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The Forums Page:

Enter the Site URL as http://myforum.com/ or http://domain.com/forum/ Then enter your forum username and password, and then select the type of forum from dropdown list. If you are not sure which forum it is, ask an admin at that forum or look at the bottom of the forum’s index page.

Enter the forum ids. You can get the forum IDs from the forum URLs. For example, for this link: http://www.wjunction.com/forumdisplay.php?f=92 the forum ID is 92. Enter for all the sections you want to post to.

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Install Transmission torrent client on Linux server: Installing transmission requires “root” access to your server and ability to follow instructions word to word. If you skip any important portion, your Transmission installation may get corrupted, so make sure you read through it as you proceed. o Run Putty or similar software to access your servers ssh terminal. o Login with username “root” and your root password. o Copy-paste this command in your terminal to install the required dependency. Remember that you can copy from here and paste into terminal by just right-clicking: yum install -y gettext gcc make intltool libevent libevent-devel curl-devel gcc-c++ m4 automake libtool openssl-devel o Now using wget command, download Transmission binary: wget http://download.transmissionbt.com/files/transmission-2.04.tar.bz2 o And extract it to a directory: tar xf transmission-2.04.tar.bz2 o Now go inside the directory: cd transmission* o And configure transmission: ./configure --enable-daemon --disable-gtk o Prepare to install: make o And run install: make install o Now run transmission once so that settings file are created. transmission-daemon o Now kill the daemon so that you can safely edit its settings. killall transmission-daemon o Edit the “settings.json” file for your transmission: vi ~/.config/transmission-daemon/settings.json o And disable RPC whitelist: "rpc-whitelist-enabled": false, (type “/rpc” and press “Enter” on your keyboard to find the "rpc-whitelist-enabled", press “Insert” on your keyboard to enable text input mode, change value from “true” to “false”, press “Esc” on your keyboard to disable text input mode, type “:wq” and press “Enter” on your keyboard to save and exit) o And now just test if it is running or not by going to: http://your.server.ip:9091/ o Remember you can open the transmission web interface link to stop torrents and such. Also that Transmission will need to be started again if you reboot your VPS: transmission-daemon

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Frequently Asked Questions:

Presales questions: Q. What is sBorg? A. sBorg is the ultimate uploaders’ tool that is capable of downloading, extracting, removing unnecessary files, adding your own, renaming files, Re-Raring and uploading to multiple file hosts, grabbing IMDB info, creating a post and posting to your blog! In short, it is what you want if you are looking to make some serious money off uploading. Q. How much does sBorg cost? A. Visit http://sborg.us/site/purchase-plans/ to see our plans and the costs. Q. How do I order sBorg? A. Visit http://sborg.us/site/purchase-plans/ to see our plans and the costs and you can also order from the sidebar that contains PayPal payment gateway. Q. How long does it take to get sBorg license/hosting after I have paid? A. Depending on when you paid, around 24 hours. Usually it takes 5 to 10 minutes. If 24 hours have passed and you haven’t gotten a reply, email us with your PayPal email, transaction ID, amount sent and the plan you purchased.

Setup and installation questions: Q. Is it hard to install? A. If you are on a Linux server, then all you need to do to run sBorg is upload a Zip file, extract it, open in your browser and provide your PayPal email and transaction ID. It’ll install itself automatically. The whole process takes about 5 minutes for novice users. For advanced users, it usually takes 10 seconds. If you are on a windows server, grab our windows installer and install using default settings. Done! Q. Could you setup our server for use with sBorg? A. For a small setup fee, we will setup your server so that you may run sBorg without any difficulties. Please check our price list for the fee to install sBorg on your server: http://sborg.us/site/purchase-plans/ Q. Can I rename the sBorg folder or move it? A. Yes, you can rename or move the sBorg folder to any location you like. Make sure sBorg is not running while you attempt to move the files. This will corrupt the sBorg files and you will have to delete the sBorg folder and reinstall it again.

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Usage questions: Q. How do I check how many licenses I have left? A. Send us an email from your PayPal email and we’ll reply you with the number of licenses you have left. Q. How do I use it? A. Scroll up to page 1. Q. My progress bar is not showing? A. The progress bar requires PHP 5.3 or higher. We suggest you update your PHP version. If you are using PHP 5.3 and the progress bar still not showing, then there is something wrong with your PHP configuration. Contact your server owner or tech support. Q. I am getting errors with sBorg? A. Run http://domain.com/sborg/del.php to delete all files inside “files” folder. This usually fixes the problem. If the problem continues, please take a screenshot of the error and email or PM it to us. Q. I forgot my username and password to my sBorg? A. Delete accounts.php from sBorg home directory. This will reset your sBorg settings and you will be provided with “Setup” page when you open sBorg in your browser. Q. My browser is timing out. How to fix it? A. Upgrade to PHP 5.3 or higher. Q. Can I close my browser while uploading? A. Yes you can. sBorg runs in the background while you are uploading. Q. How do I remove .URL .TXT and .NFO files from the RAR file I am downloading? A. Those files will be removed automatically while extracting the RAR file. Q. Where do I add my own files? A. Place your .NFO, .TXT and .URL files inside “myfiles” folder in sBorg home directory. They will be added once you tick “Add my files” in the index page.

Misc. questions: Q. What is new in this version of sBorg? A. Visit http://sborg.us/site/ for detailed list of upgrades. Q. What options do i have to check while uploading? A. The default options are good enough for uploading. You do not need to change anything unless you know what you are doing.

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Q. I did something wrong. How can I stop the upload process? A. Run http://domain.com/sborg/del.php this will delete everything in your “files” folder and stop all upload processes. Your files inside “myfiles” folder and your settings will not be altered. Q. How do I update my sBorg to the latest version? A. When a new update is available, there will be an additional link called “Update”. Click on it and provide your PayPal email and transaction ID to update to the latest available version. Q. Why is MTN not taking a screenshot of my video/movie? A. Either your operating system does not support MTN or the video you are using has corrupted/unrecognized codec. Q. Why is my auto-post to Wordpress not working?? A. Go to http://domain.com/wp-admin/options-writing.php and look for “XML-RPC” checkbox, enable it. Now Wordpress will accept posts from sBorg.

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