Lets say you wanted to move 40 gigs of files from one place to another,
well a torrent is a really good way to move any amount or size of files
its p2p but uses a tracker as a traffic controller. Its really great
for sending large collections of files from one server to another.
In a way that can be stopped and restarted.
Youll need a tracker, and a client application.
Running your own tracker is really easy If you have *amp installed:
FOSS Opentracker is the way I went:
www .whitsoftdev. com/opentracker/
Without the spaces, of course.
unzip it,
To run OpenTracker, you need two things: a web server that supports PHP, and a MySQL database.
PHP should be set for magic_quotes_gpc off.
Execute the included dbschema.sql on your database. This will create the table required by OpenTracker, which is named `peers` by default. You may rename the table if desired.
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS `peers`;
CREATE TABLE `peers` (
`info_hash` char(20) binary NOT NULL default '',
`ip` int(11) NOT NULL default '0',
`port` smallint(5) unsigned NOT NULL default '0',
`peer_id` char(20) binary NOT NULL default '',
`uploaded` bigint(20) unsigned NOT NULL default '0',
`downloaded` bigint(20) unsigned NOT NULL default '0',
`left` bigint(20) unsigned NOT NULL default '0',
`update_time` timestamp(14) NOT NULL,
`expire_time` timestamp(14) NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`info_hash`,`ip`,`port`)
) TYPE=HEAP;
Edit config.inc.php, filling in the appropriate information for your database setup.
That's all there is to it. Create a torrent using announce.php on your server as the announce URL, and away you go.
Really neat to see the source for an app like this. Im looking into php client will post mor l8r
Mampy
