[ubuntu-uk] How to torrent on a remote machine: was:Idea- Torrents!

Iain Lane ubuntu at orangesquash.org.uk
Tue Apr 29 15:48:30 BST 2008


Alan Pope wrote:
> 
> Then on my desktop PC I go and find a torrent I want to download, ah,
> here is one:-
> 
> http://releases.ubuntu.com/hardy/ubuntu-8.04-alternate-i386.iso.torrent
> 
> I then open a terminal on my desktop and ssh from my desktop to the
> server:-
> 
> $ ssh 192.168.129.5
> 
> (Note: 192.168.129.5 is the IP address my server has, yours may be
> different of course depending upon how you configured your network)
> 
> I then get the torrent to the server machine:-
> 
> $ wget
> http://releases.ubuntu.com/hardy/ubuntu-8.04-alternate-i386.iso.torrent
> 

One thing I use which makes this part of the process easier is a "watch
directory". Any torrents which are in this directory will be downloaded
and seeded by rtorrent. So if you have this accessible by
sshfs/nfs/whatever, just dump your torrents in there and they go off and
download without any extra intervention. When you delete torrents from
the watch directory, they're removed from rtorrent too. Convenience!

More here: http://libtorrent.rakshasa.no/wiki/RTorrentCommonTasks

Iain



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