livegirllove
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Torrent generator, Peer software
I am looking for 2 things.
1. A torrent generator that can be run on a scheduled task or continuously to generate a new torrent (tracker file) for each file in a single directory on a windows server. eg. when new files get added they get torrented ;)
2. A Peer/leach program that can run on a windows server that will automatically grab any new torrents from the server in question 1.
Preferably these would be able to run as services or at least without GUI so I can script it.
My end game here is to dump daily incremental files from backups into a directory and then have them leached out as soon as possible by another server across the interwebs. FTP is failing to be fast or reliable enough. Hamachi introduces a VPN I don't want to maintain or introduce to my servers/LANs.
Bittorrent is free and seems to doo exactly what I need. RESUME without timing out. :)
all suggestions welcome. Free is better. Open-Source is best.
1. A torrent generator that can be run on a scheduled task or continuously to generate a new torrent (tracker file) for each file in a single directory on a windows server. eg. when new files get added they get torrented ;)
2. A Peer/leach program that can run on a windows server that will automatically grab any new torrents from the server in question 1.
Preferably these would be able to run as services or at least without GUI so I can script it.
My end game here is to dump daily incremental files from backups into a directory and then have them leached out as soon as possible by another server across the interwebs. FTP is failing to be fast or reliable enough. Hamachi introduces a VPN I don't want to maintain or introduce to my servers/LANs.
Bittorrent is free and seems to doo exactly what I need. RESUME without timing out. :)
all suggestions welcome. Free is better. Open-Source is best.
So you might want to rethink this. If you use bittorrent for this ANYONE will have access to those files. Are you not worried about the data at all?
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ever hear of a firewall?
So are you planning on hosting your own tracker also then?
Generating the file alone doesn't make is accessable you need a service to connect to that knows about the torrent that can give it to the clients.
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I was thinking something like this:
http://www.bootstrike.com/Articles/CreateTorrent/?cPage=2#cPageA
but more command line. less gui
Also I would further block out everyone but my one leach server IP address from all the SEED server firewalls. ThenI figure
I have the backups all 256 Blowfish already.
Ports blocked to all buy my leach server IP
plus only I have the torrents. they arent going on a public tracker site.
and if I get this working then Ill probably try tunneling it through SSH as well.
So yea. I have thought of security. Was first thing I thought of.
http://www.bootstrike.com/Articles/CreateTorrent/?cPage=2#cPageA
but more command line. less gui
Also I would further block out everyone but my one leach server IP address from all the SEED server firewalls. ThenI figure
I have the backups all 256 Blowfish already.
Ports blocked to all buy my leach server IP
plus only I have the torrents. they arent going on a public tracker site.
and if I get this working then Ill probably try tunneling it through SSH as well.
So yea. I have thought of security. Was first thing I thought of.
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well im still wrapping my head around bittorrent.
I think / thought I could use a builtin tracker client like utorrent. seems most have them IPADDRESS/anounce
I think / thought I could use a builtin tracker client like utorrent. seems most have them IPADDRESS/anounce
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on the leach side. this looks sortof like what I want. http://libtorrent.rakshasa.no/wiki/RTorrentCommonTasks
But its linux... i cant deal with that.
But its linux... i cant deal with that.
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oh and also on the security side. These are incrementals of Shadowprotect. Which is block level backup. so an incremental even if they cracked the blowfish encryption would not get them much.
No problem I was just trying to think of any flaws in your plan and point them out. Looks like you are using a *NIX. There are several command line bittorrent tools for it. Here is a python based one
http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-command-line-bittorrent-client.html.
Have you thought about rsync though?
http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/
http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-command-line-bittorrent-client.html.
Have you thought about rsync though?
http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/
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no NIX nix to nix. It has to be winblows. I have windows techs that have to manage the system.
eg the link i gave above looks about right... but for *nix.
Although I suppose I could spin up a virtual machine with ubuntu on it.
eg the link i gave above looks about right... but for *nix.
Although I suppose I could spin up a virtual machine with ubuntu on it.
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hmm why did I miss delta in my searches for 3 days? tx Ill check that out.
But back to the original Q. any ideas?
But back to the original Q. any ideas?
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and no offense on my first reply there. looking back its a little rough. But its 430am and I don't see why in 2010 it's so difficult to get files offsite. :)
Im off to bed. ill check the thread in the am.
Im off to bed. ill check the thread in the am.
well utorrent can leach the files. Here are the commadn lines options.
http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=53988
http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=53988
this might also work for the leach side
http://www.geekzilla.co.uk/View838302ED-E806-4314-AC3A-89872D6F8C9B.htm
http://www.geekzilla.co.uk/View838302ED-E806-4314-AC3A-89872D6F8C9B.htm
maybe this to make them??
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Internet/File-Sharing/MakeTorrent.shtml
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Internet/File-Sharing/MakeTorrent.shtml
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hey deltasync seems pretty easy. Im testing it now with 30+gig file across the internet. the gui doesnt give much info on transfer speed. It does have a "retry Attempts" option defaulted at 5. So I suppose it should resume if the internet connection drops momentarily.
with bittorrent it could be down for days and still resume. How flexible is Delta? I dont plan on any day long server outages but just wondering about he reliablity.
with bittorrent it could be down for days and still resume. How flexible is Delta? I dont plan on any day long server outages but just wondering about he reliablity.
My opinion is that deltacopy is going to do most of what you need to do without the add complexity of the BT solution. There are too many parts in the BT solution for a simple file copy. Any one fails and you have to troubleshoot and fix. If you find that delta copy isn't going to work and you already have AD in place look at FRS or preferably DFSR.