Running your stack

Once your stack is up, most of what you do falls into a handful of shapes: starting the part you need, checking on something that was asked for, adjusting quality, and keeping a backup you could actually restore from.

These pages cover each of those. None of them assume you have read the others.

Forms and slicesRun only the part of the stack you need right now, and compose slices together.

The servicesAll nineteen services, what each one does, and which form starts it.

Starting and stoppingUp, down, switch, restart, and what each one will affect before it acts.

Quality presetsChoose how good your media should look, and see what it costs in disk.

Requests and the householdHow everyone else asks for things, and how you see where each request stands.

Where is my show?Follow one item across every service that touched it, and find out where it stopped.

Backup and restoreMake your configuration recoverable, so it stops being precious.

UpdatingMove the stack forward deliberately, and understand the one step you cannot undo.

Where to go next

If you have not set anything up yet, Start here comes first — particularly Your first stack.

When something is wrong, When something’s wrong is the section to open. Run the doctor is almost always the right first move, because it checks the claims rather than repeating them.

For the exact flags on any command, see Commands, and for the terminal dashboard, The TUI.