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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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