Topic: seeding on 2 trackers

[cbd]

what are the mechanics of seeding a single show on 2 diferent trackers? I already have the show going on dime & want to seed it on anotehr tracker as well.

do I run torrent spy again & enter the tracker address for the 2nd tracker
create a new torrent file
upload to the 2nd tracker using the new torrent file but linking to the same folder with the files in it?

[Steve J]

First of all, you would have to create a second set of files to seed from, as you can't run two torrents from the same set of seeding files (or so has been my experience). Then, yes, a new torrent file would have to be created to refer to the second set of seeding files and link to the second tracker.

I do think that this would be unwise to do on one box though, as it'd put quite a load on the hard drive. When I run two seeds at once, I run one from my tower and one from my lappy. I have the bandwidth to make this an OK proposition; but generally my experience is that seeding is faster overall if you do one at a time.

[todd e]

ive tried the first way mentioned and it didn't work.

that being said, i've heard that azereus can handle two trackers, same fileset.  never tested it though.

craig, i would serious consider suggesting that you ask yourself why does the show need to be on two different trackers?
if it is an issue of membership, then i can 'sort of' understand.  if it's to increase the visibility of your show, then just keep it to one.

[bconnolly]

First of all, you would have to create a second set of files to seed from, as you can't run two torrents from the same set of seeding files (or so has been my experience). Then, yes, a new torrent file would have to be created to refer to the second set of seeding files and link to the second tracker.

I thought that was true as well but I just did it last night and had no problems.  In uTorrent I have two seeds going on two different trackers but they're each seeding the exact same files properly.

I do think that this would be unwise to do on one box though, as it'd put quite a load on the hard drive. When I run two seeds at once, I run one from my tower and one from my lappy. I have the bandwidth to make this an OK proposition; but generally my experience is that seeding is faster overall if you do one at a time.

That doesn't really make any sense.  Hard drives have the bandwidth to seed more than one set of files at a time without any problems.  As long as you're not running a 54000 rpm drive with 2MB of cache, you should be fine.  Pretty much all new-ish hard drives have at least 8MB of cache and a lot (all of mine) have 16MB.

[Steve J]

I do think that this would be unwise to do on one box though, as it'd put quite a load on the hard drive. When I run two seeds at once, I run one from my tower and one from my lappy. I have the bandwidth to make this an OK proposition; but generally my experience is that seeding is faster overall if you do one at a time.

That doesn't really make any sense.  Hard drives have the bandwidth to seed more than one set of files at a time without any problems.  As long as you're not running a 54000 rpm drive with 2MB of cache, you should be fine.  Pretty much all new-ish hard drives have at least 8MB of cache and a lot (all of mine) have 16MB.

Just what I've experienced only. I *believe* that this type of activity (multiple torrents) helped cause a fault on one of my hard drives. Could have been a manufacturing defect (probably more thank likely); but I find that running multiple torrents (even if just seeding) bogs down system resources so much that I don't do it anymore.

[cbd]

yea I just got a invite to a BT site I have been wanting to get into for a while & my magic numbers show that's on dime now fits perfectly there. don't care about "visibility", gjesus tito, give mea break 

[BayTaynt3d]

You can also do things like put two different "annouce" URLs in the .torrent file itself.