Thread: Does your seedbox let you seed 1 file on 2 diff tracker simultaneously?

Yeah so I'm a seedbox virgin and have no clue if this is normal behavior or not...



Does your seedbox let you seed 1 file on 2 or more diff tracker simultaneously?


My seedbox is running TorrentFlux if its of any help

on my seedbox i can seed 0ne file to 2 or more tracker
but i have utorrent on it
on the torrentflux i think is not working.

I can't do that, unfortunately!

rTorrent does it fine

any torrent client can do it... well as far as i can tell, i can do it with rtorrent, utorrent, torrentflux and deluge.
for torrentflux, just change the name of the torrents as 1.torrent and 2.torrent. If you wanna skip hash @ the beginning, i think it only works if u use BitTornado as ur client.

How do you do it with rTorrent? I tried and failed lol..

I dont know rtorrent, but in the case of utorrent, you

-download both .torrent files (change name slightly)
-add first .torrent file to client. let it download 100%
-add second .torrent file manually or in Watch folder. if manually, point directory to the same location the first went to.
-now it will cross-seed at the second tracker using the data from the first

Important: 1) the directories must be the same in both torrents 2) the files must be the same in both torrents. Otherwise, the 2nd torrent will d/l & correct the "bad" or "missing" files. If it overwrites something, then it could mess up your first torrent seed's hash.. so make sure the file sizes for both torrents match exactly.

You can get around this problem by partial seeding the 2nd torrent if it is larger than the first, but this is advanced and is learned over time/practice.

If you dont mind hashing the torrents, the you can cross-seed on rtorrent like on any other clients. If u wanna cross-seed without hash checking, follow this guide:

Originally Posted by dashboardy

If you upload a torrent (and are using rtorrent as your client), or have downloaded a release and want to seed that exact release at another tracker, a hash check can be a pain. With this method, all you need to do to skip a hash after you have completed a torrent from one tracker, is download the torrent from the tracker that you want to seed on and type:

nh RLSNAME.torrent

To have the ability to do this, do the following in your terminal, as root:

cd /bin
wget http://libtorrent.rakshasa.no/downloads/rtorrent_fast_resume.pl
chmod 755 rtorrent_fast_resume.pl
mv rtorrent_fast_resume.pl nh.pl

Basically you've downloaded the script that is used to skip hashchecks - now for the part that makes it easy to use. Create a file called nh (stands for 'no hash' doesn't have an extension) and copy the following into it, then save and place in /bin/ folder.

#!/bin/bash
nh.pl /path.to.torrentdata/ <$1> /path.to.watchdir/$1

Once again, you need to chmod 755 nh (while still running as root). Obviously edit the /path.to portions of the above code.

Note that for the perl script to work, you should also type

perl -MCPAN -e 'install Convert::Bencode'

Which will install everything necessary to actually run the script.

Once both nh.pl and nh files are in /bin/ and the appropriate dirs have been replaced in nh file, if you wanted to skip hash check for say, Heroes S03E19 720p HDTV X264-DIMENSION you can download the .torrent to a folder on your server (doesn't matter where), go to that folder and in a terminal type

nh Heroes.S03E19.720p.HDTV.X264-DIMENSION.torrent

There are probably more efficient ways of doing this but if you were wondering how to hashcheck, this should work.

Note that if there are files missing (like samples) from site A and you want to seed to site B with this, you'll have to add the .torrent as normal - missing files cause this script to error out. If you have extra files, however, it should still work.

in torrent flux,its not possible as it usually gives the message of presence of file already on server..However this should work fine on utorrent...