Re: using bittorrent for backup of personal files
On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 11:00:48AM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Sb, 10 mar 12, 19:48:21, Mark Neidorff wrote:
> >
> > Aren't you trying to do something that BT doesn't do? BT is good when you
> > have lots of people who want to download a file and lots of people have the
> > file. Then transmitting the file is broken up among many people. In your case
> > only one person has the file(s) and you want to copy them to a few other
> > people. Seems to me like you are trying to use the wrong tool.
>
> No, this is what BitTorrent was designed for.
>
I agree with Andrei :)
I'm trying to transmit files to 3 or 5 other computers. Not hundreds,
like BT is famous for, but I still think this is appropriate use. It
will certainly save me some bandwidth over rsync'ing.
-Rob
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