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They backup to Library Genesis as far as I understand it, Library Genesis is available via Torrents & Usenet - http://gen.lib.rus.ec/repository_torrent/ http://
by th0br0 9y ago
They backup to Library Genesis as far as I understand it, Library Genesis is available via Torrents & Usenet - http://gen.lib.rus.ec/repository_torrent/ http://gen.lib.rus.ec/repository_torrent/
- frgtpsswrdlame 9y agoYes, if you have a seedbox or something please host a few random parts! I have three or four hosted pieces and there aren't too many peers.
- icebraining 9y agoIs there any way to tell which torrents have fewer seeds, without having to add them all to my client?
- stevenhuang 9y agoI would like to know as well.
- icebraining 9y agoSee my other post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14870697 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14870697
- stevenhuang 9y agoThat's brilliant; nice work! Will try to seed some soon.
- frgtpsswrdlame 9y agoI wasn't able to figure out a way so I just picked a few at random. Is there an easy way to roll up like a heroku app or something that would check the health of only those torrents? That could be really useful to the libgen guys.
- icebraining 9y agoI couldn't find anything, so I ended up making it myself using TorrentSniff. http://genesis.andreparames.com/ http://genesis.andreparames.com/ Most of the trackers seem to be down, so it's just getting data from tracker2.wasabii.com, and even that is pretty slow, so it'll take a while to fetch for all 1693 torrents. I wrote a script that pings the tracker and keeps regenerating a static HTML file, so it'll keep updating itself, though not very fast.
- frgtpsswrdlame 9y agoJust saw this, thanks! Super cool.
- nannal 9y agoThe IPFS network is ideal for this kind of situation. I should say I'm bias as I run ipfsstore.it but to host all 26gb there would not be expensive.
- 0x006A 9y agoipfs overhad is still way to big. also 26TB not 25gb.
- aw3c2 9y agoOverhead in what aspect?
- imtringued 9y agoAdding files to IPFS creates a copy of the file in their blockstore implementation. The new filestore should have solved this problem but I haven't used it yet.
- 0x006A 9y agobesides the mentioned duplication of all files, the dht network chatter to announce a large repository by default produces many TB of traffic a month.
- wongarsu 9y agoIn which way is IPFS ideal?
- dmix 9y agoWouldn't IPFS make it easier to access individual files compared to a Torrent file? 26TB is a massive amount of data. Having downloaded (very) large dumps in the past with torrents, I've found it always a bit annoying especially when attempting to access a subset, torrent client interfaces are less than ideal here. Not that someone can't build a good document browser on top of torrents - ala those movie torrent streaming apps. I'm not familiar with how IPFS works in detail but being able to access it via a file system sounds much better UX wise. Hopefully it can support that scale. But to your point the primary end-goal of "censorship-free" persistent access is largely the same AFAIK.
- agumonkey 9y agothe db dump is public too, from the tip of my tongue libgen forums quoted something like 100TB altogether. (this includes more than scihub cache)