I have it set in QBittorent to delete them automatically when added. I like to stay tidy. Actually, I probably use more magnet torrents than regular, no mess, no fuss.

I stay away from torrent files, preferring magnet links only. Seconding the other user’s suggestion of backing up appdata to preserve your torrent library.

If its something I’m concerned about finding to redownload, I just back up the content itself.

Otherwise its just arr’s doing their thing to my specs, so I just backup my arr’s.

All the loaded torrents in a torrent client already get stored somewhere in the torrent client’s own settings folders. e.g. if you look in qBittorrent’s settings folders you’ll find a folder full of .torrent files representing every single torrent currently in the torrent client.

So if it’s a torrent I’m going to leave loaded in the torrent client then no, there’s no reason to save a second copy of the .torrent file. But I guess if it’s a torrent I’m not going to load in the torrent client, or will remove it from there, then maybe it’s worth saving depending how you do things.

I’m undecided. I figure if I save them and back them up to an offline/offsite device, then I can (mostly/hopefully) recover from hardware failure by simply re-adding all the torrent files to my favorite client.

It would be better just to back up your entire torrent client settings folders, you’ll save all the .torrent files along with the save folders and other information you have in the torrent client.

I’ve migrated servers a few times and it’s come in handy to have qbitorrent save them to a single folder I can move.

I generally have a couple thousand torrents running keeping some very old stuff alive. I’d rather have them around for server migrations to keep that going, move the data, load the torrent, force recheck.