Re: using bittorrent for backup of personal files
On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 02:04:46AM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Jo, 08 mar 12, 18:56:19, Rob Owens wrote:
> > >
> > I'm a bit of a novice, so my terminology may be off. But by "public" I
> > mean a torrent that I upload to any public tracker, like
> > thepiratebay or something. Anyone could download my torrent, not that they
> > would know to look for it.
>
> You don't need a public tracker, you can either set up your own tracker
> or just use DHT.
>
For those following along, I've had some success testing on my LAN.
Set up a tracker on machine1:
bttrack --port 6969 --dfile dstate --logfile bttrack.log
Create a torrent and reference the above tracker. I did it both with
transmission-gtk and the following command line:
btmakemetafile http://machine1:6969/announce somefile
or
btmakemetafile http://machine1:6969/announce somedirectory
Seed the torrent with one machine, and download the torrent on another
machine. I also had success downloading the torrent from the same user
account that was seeding it, but using a different bittorrent client
(and saving to a different directory).
Some of the torrents take a long time to start downloading (like an hour
or more). Some of them start right away. One torrent ran overnight and
never started downloading. Then I paused and resumed it, and it started
right up. Any ideas why this might happen?
-Rob
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