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Re: [BackupPC-users] sync with bittorrent

2008-07-28 10:11:57
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] sync with bittorrent
From: Martin Leben <ml060223 AT leben DOT nu>
To: backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:10:08 +0200
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.


Hmm... Have understood you correct if what you want to achieve is a sync of a 
large file set without the huge memory overhead of rsync?

/Martin


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