[OSM-talk] Testing torrents for the planet dump

[John Whelan]

My concern would be more the volume of data we have whirling round.

Smaller torrents of each country might be more useful and I'd have to 
get my head around picking up the new one each week.  I'm running 
qBittorrent if that is of any use.

Cheerio John

Christian Quest wrote on 2020-02-09 12:42 PM:
>
> Le 09/02/2020 à 18:26, Maarten Deen a écrit :
>> On 2020-02-09 16:17, Christian Quest wrote:
>>> A couple of weeks ago, I've (re) started sharing planet dump files
>>> using Bittorrent to test an alternative way to distribute our planet
>>> dumps to reduce the bandwidth load on the OSMF servers.
>>>
>>> Here is a short summary after 2 weeks tests...
>>>
>>> The torrents are generated a few hours after the planet dump
>>> availability on planet.openstreetmap.org server (time needed to
>>> download the original file to generate the torrent).
>>
>> A question about updates of the torrent. The planet changes weekly. 
>> Suppose I download the plannet using the torrent and then also seed 
>> it, what happens when the next planet comes available? Do I need to 
>> use a different torrent to download it again or will the one I have 
>> be updated?
> Each planet file has its own torrent. A new planet file means using a 
> new torrent to download it.
>
> To simplify downloading the lastest planet, you'll find a 
> planet-latest.pbf.torrent similar to the planet-latest.pbf (it's a 
> symlink to the last planet available).
>
> If you want to automate downloading new planet thru torrents, for 
> example to seed them, there's a rss.xml file you can use. Many 
> bittorrent clients support RSS to automate downloads.
>

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