Lordelph has just setup a new system to distribute the Geograph archive by bittorrent! For this to work really well we need as many people to help seed as possible, so if you are able please do!
I have a number of servers sitting around that could help with this, so I am particularly keen to have a client that can be setup on linux boxes easy, Lordelph pointed me towards rtorrent which so far seems to be working well. I don’t have time to document it fully now, but below is a quick start guide to what I did to get it going (on Fedora, other flavours very similar), with minimal fuss. The next step will be to have a script to automatically discover new torrents.
#install rtorrent (using yum as fedora) yum install rtorrent #create user and folder adduser geotorr mkdir /var/geotorr chown geotorr:geotorr /var/geotorr #setup initial enviroment su geotorr mkdir /var/geotorr/session mkdir /var/geotorr/watch cd /var/geotorr/watch/ wget http://torrents.geograph.org.uk/torrents/geograph_vol001_image_0_to_49999.torrent #create config file (setting up to use created folder, and to setup watch and session folders) # paste in the example from http://libtorrent.rakshasa.no/browser/trunk/rtorrent/doc/rtorrent.rc?rev=latest and edit # or see my version available at http://barry.pastebin.com/f6f861f59 nano ~/.rtorrent.rc #but see also (haven't read it myself!) # http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/05/02/howto-use-rtorrent-like-a-pro/ # then to add new torrents in future just drop the .torrents files in the watch folder # - a little script that follows that RSS feed would do nicely here!
more… on the geograph forum.
Edited Tues PM for spelling and grammar – the previous post wasn’t proof-read!
Tags: bittorrent
