Re: [mirrorbrain] Import and export metalinks?

2018-03-12 Thread Peter Pöml
Hi Derek, no, no, yes, and no. MirrorBrain expects the files to be present locally, at least as an empty file without content, with path- and filename matching some mirror. You could set up redirection to single mirrors/servers arbitrarily of course (including metalinks), combining them

[mirrorbrain] Import and export metalinks?

2018-03-12 Thread Derek Hofmann
Hi, I'm thinking of setting up a MirrorBrain server that would be a permanent way to locate files as their original locations vanish from the web. Metalinks (RFC5854) seem ideal for this because they support multiple URLs. I want to do this as cheaply as possible for multiple terabytes of data,