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?
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.
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.
Quote from: Steve J on March 24, 2006, 11:23:45 AM
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.
Quote from: Steve J on March 24, 2006, 11:23:45 AM
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.
Quote from: mojomonkee on March 24, 2006, 01:52:16 PM
Quote from: Steve J on March 24, 2006, 11:23:45 AM
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.
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 >:(
You can also do things like put two different "annouce" URLs in the .torrent file itself.