Install

Reaper needs no access to your media, whichever install you pick. It has no filesystem delete path: only Sonarr and Radarr do. Everything it keeps is one small data folder.

Caution

If you find yourself mounting your library, something is wrong. Reaper never needs to see your media files.

Pick your route

• Docker, which is a single docker compose up -d.
• Unraid, from Community Applications.
• Windows, an installer or a portable zip.
• macOS, a drag-to-Applications app.
• Snap, a service on any Linux with snapd.

Every route lands in the same place. Follow First run afterwards.

Where the data lives

Install	Data folder
Docker	the /data volume
Unraid	your appdata share
Windows	%LOCALAPPDATA%\Reaper
macOS	~/Library/Application Support/Reaper
Snap	/var/snap/scythe-labs-reaper/common

What to back up

Three files in the data folder, covered in Back this up: reaper.db, secret.key and secret.salt. The key and the salt are useless apart. Set that up before you arm anything.