too many files for bittorrent to handle, need to wrap the fileset up 
with tar unfortunately.  also, bittorrent wont handle the hardlinks so 
again it needs wrapped up in tar.

oh well, it was a thought.

Daniel Denson wrote:
> 1m5.6s to add 6159 files or  .01 seconds per file.  the torrent is 200K
> i did a single directory, ill try this whole server next.
>
> Daniel Denson wrote:
>> I recently read a tip on lifehacker about checking and fixing 
>> downloaded ISO media with bittorrent.  bittorrent is designed for 
>> small incremental part downloads and organizing that data which could 
>> make it a nice fit for remote filesystem syncing with any filesystem 
>> that can do readable snapshots.
>>
>> consider make an LVM snapshot and then a torrent file for it.  setup 
>> your backuppc server as a bittorrent tacker.  send the torrent to the 
>> remote machine and run it with rtorrent or some cli torrent client.
>>
>> i'm going to time torrent creation on my filesystem, i will return 
>> results
>>
>> thanks
>>
>

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