Question: Can openbay's data be backed up with torrenting?

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Question: Can openbay's data be backed up with torrenting? #82

Open cowlicks opened 9 years ago

cowlicks commented 9 years ago

If I understand things correctly, the torrent data TPB stored was: a list of torrent names, their metadata, their magnet links. Could we wrap this up in a torrent periodically and ask the users to volunteer to help back it up by seeding the torrent? If images are not included in the metadata this would never be a very large file.

tehp commented 9 years ago

I'm sure this would work, and your correct the file would be small... What is this an alternative to?

cowlicks commented 9 years ago

Well from reading the openbay installation instructions, it is not clear to me how a user gets historical torrent data. This would be a way to do that.

wernerml commented 9 years ago

Nice!