Downloading large updates and builds in PNG

[Wade Brainerd]

Would it be worth setting up a BitTorrent tracker for builds?

BitTorrent is very reliable, excellent at resuming, doesn't require command
line use, and can take advantage of local seeds.

Best,
Wade

2008/6/9 Carol Lerche <cafl at msbit.com>:

> Here is what I did when I was fighting battles with an unreliable
> connection a few months ago.  (It doesn't solve the cost of downloading, but
> it does solve the lost connection problem).  Use
>
> wget -c url-of-the-wanted-file
>
> This command line program will allow you to resume the download again and
> again when the inevitable happens and the connection is lost.  If you find
> that it downloads more reliably if you limit the bandwidth, there is another
> option to set a rate limit, namely:
>
> wget --limit-rate=20k  -c url-of-the-wanted-file
>
> (the rate is given in bytes per second, so the above example is 20,000
> bytes per second).
>
> Living at the far end of the DSL reaches, wget is my favorite program!
>
> Regards,
>
> Carol Lerche
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 12:29 AM, James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:
>
>> No, FTP is not more reliable, if you have a problem with HTTP downloads
>> of the image you will have the same problems with FTP.
>>
>> Yes, it can be made available in smaller chunks, but it is best to
>> download it with a restartable downloader, which recovers from
>> interruptions.  wget on Linux can do this, as can rsync.  There are
>> restartable downloaders available for other operating systems.  Ability
>> to restart at last known point after an interruption is inherent in the
>> HTTP, FTP and rsync protocols.  But many HTTP clients do not use the
>> feature.
>>
>> Yes, there is a better way of making new builds and updates available,
>> and that is the olpc-update mechanism.  It restarts from where it was
>> disconnected as well, since it uses rsync.
>>
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