Re: using bittorrent for backup of personal files

2012-03-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 10 mar 12, 19:48:21, Mark Neidorff wrote: Aren't you trying to do something that BT doesn't do? BT is good when you have lots of people who want to download a file and lots of people have the file. Then transmitting the file is broken up among many people. In your case only

Re: using bittorrent for backup of personal files

2012-03-11 Thread Rob Owens
On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 11:00:48AM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Sb, 10 mar 12, 19:48:21, Mark Neidorff wrote: Aren't you trying to do something that BT doesn't do? BT is good when you have lots of people who want to download a file and lots of people have the file. Then

Re: using bittorrent for backup of personal files

2012-03-11 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 02:04:46AM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Jo, 08 mar 12, 18:56:19, Rob Owens wrote: I'm a bit of a novice, so my terminology may be off. But by public I mean a torrent that I upload to any public tracker, like thepiratebay or something. Anyone could download

Re: using bittorrent for backup of personal files

2012-03-10 Thread Gilles Mocellin
Le 09/03/2012 00:46, Rob Owens a écrit : On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 09:53:31AM -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: [...] I don't know what BackupPC does internally, but I would just use rsync over ssh, with appropriate options. It ought to be pretty robust I have BackupPC configured to use rsync over

Re: using bittorrent for backup of personal files

2012-03-10 Thread Rob Owens
On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 03:12:02PM +0100, Gilles Mocellin wrote: Le 09/03/2012 00:46, Rob Owens a écrit : On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 09:53:31AM -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: [...] I don't know what BackupPC does internally, but I would just use rsync over ssh, with appropriate options. It ought

Re: using bittorrent for backup of personal files

2012-03-10 Thread Mark Neidorff
On Tuesday 06 March 2012 7:18:49 pm Rob Owens wrote: I'm considering using bittorrent to back up large files such as pictures and home movies. I am the admin for several of my family members' computers. The idea would be to back up my files onto their machines, then eventually back their

Re: using bittorrent for backup of personal files

2012-03-08 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 06 mar 12, 19:18:49, Rob Owens wrote: I'm considering using bittorrent to back up large files such as pictures and home movies. I am the admin for several of my family members' computers. The idea would be to back up my files onto their machines, then eventually back their stuff up in

Re: using bittorrent for backup of personal files

2012-03-08 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 8/03/2012 9:24 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Ma, 06 mar 12, 19:18:49, Rob Owens wrote: I'm considering using bittorrent to back up large files such as pictures and home movies. I am the admin for several of my family members' computers. The idea would be to back up my files onto their

Re: using bittorrent for backup of personal files

2012-03-08 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 06:18:40PM +0100, 0xAAA wrote: On Tue, Mar 06, 2012 at 07:18:49PM -0500, Rob Owens wrote: I already use BackupPC successfully for offsite backups between family members. Very large files are sometimes a problem, however, which is why I'm considering bittorrent to

Re: using bittorrent for backup of personal files

2012-03-08 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 09:53:31AM -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 16:18, Rob Owens row...@ptd.net wrote: I want to keep this data private.  What are my options, besides a VPN? I hesitate to use a public torrent even on encrypted data, because the computers of tomorrow

Re: using bittorrent for backup of personal files

2012-03-08 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 12:24:10PM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Ma, 06 mar 12, 19:18:49, Rob Owens wrote: I'm considering using bittorrent to back up large files such as pictures and home movies. I am the admin for several of my family members' computers. The idea would be to back up

Re: using bittorrent for backup of personal files

2012-03-08 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 08 mar 12, 18:56:19, Rob Owens wrote: I'm a bit of a novice, so my terminology may be off. But by public I mean a torrent that I upload to any public tracker, like thepiratebay or something. Anyone could download my torrent, not that they would know to look for it. You don't need

Re: using bittorrent for backup of personal files

2012-03-08 Thread Jason Heeris
On 9 March 2012 07:46, Rob Owens row...@ptd.net wrote: 1)  It typically maxes out my internet connection.  Plain old rsync would do this too, unless there is a throttling option that I don't know about.  Rtorrent, which I use, has a throttling option. Slightly tangential, but do you know about

Re: using bittorrent for backup of personal files

2012-03-07 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Mar 06, 2012 at 07:18:49PM -0500, Rob Owens wrote: Thanks for any advice you may have. http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss/bitTorrent.html Sorry if this way off track, but it may spur some ideas? -- Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. -- Napoleon Bonaparte

Re: using bittorrent for backup of personal files

2012-03-07 Thread 0xAAA
On Tue, Mar 06, 2012 at 07:18:49PM -0500, Rob Owens wrote: I'm considering using bittorrent to back up large files such as pictures and home movies. I am the admin for several of my family members' computers. The idea would be to back up my files onto their machines, then eventually back

Re: using bittorrent for backup of personal files

2012-03-07 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 16:18, Rob Owens row...@ptd.net wrote: I'm considering using bittorrent to back up large files such as pictures and home movies.  I am the admin for several of my family members' computers.  The idea would be to back up my files onto their machines, then eventually back

using bittorrent for backup of personal files

2012-03-06 Thread Rob Owens
I'm considering using bittorrent to back up large files such as pictures and home movies. I am the admin for several of my family members' computers. The idea would be to back up my files onto their machines, then eventually back their stuff up in the same manner, resulting in several off-site