[SAC] Re: [OSGeo] #458: revive geo-torrents?

[OSGeo]

#458: revive geo-torrents?
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  Reporter:  hamish  |       Owner:  sac at lists.osgeo.org       
      Type:  task    |      Status:  new                       
  Priority:  normal  |   Component:  SAC                       
Resolution:          |    Keywords:  geodata, livedvd, torrents
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Comment (by wildintellect):

 I'm on the SAC mailing list now so we can properly discuss this. Sure long
 term we need to upgrade Apache to get rid of this 2GB. In the mean time
 and possibly a long term helpful idea I suggest we start seeding torrents
 from an osgeo server or 2.

 I've narrowed down the software options to
 [http://www.transmissionbt.com/ transmission]
 or
 [http://libtorrent.rakshasa.no/wiki rtorrent]

 Both would work well on a headless server and can handle auto torrenting
 from a watched folder. Meaning the rules could be that if it's in the
 torrent folder it will be seeded, remove it from said folder to stop
 seeding. Not sure if symlinks work on that.

 The other big decision would be what to cap the upload rate at. Note: this
 could actually be used to help upload too for some of our associates in
 far off places, the occasionally have to restart big uploads, but if they
 seeded instead md5 would be checked automatically and others could help
 pull chunks to closer machines.

 See
 http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GISVM_Build#Build_the_Live_DVD_ISO_image_build
 for some open free trackers that we're using.

 Side notes:
 rtorrent does included a tracker, but we might all consider hosting a
 mirror of the OpenTracker project - they provide hardware if we have
 space(or something like that)
 transmission has an optional web management interface

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