Transportable oneswarm instance

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Transportable oneswarm instance

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Started 2 years ago by arthur.lutz
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arthur.lutz
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Hi,

It would be quite cool to be able to have a OneSwarm installed on a laptop that helps the transfer of currently transferring files.

The following use case :

* Friend A starts downloading from Friend B the Y file, it is pretty large and is taking forever
* Friend B has a desktop machine (where file Y is stored) and a laptop (both have oneswarm)
* Friend B plans to physically visit Friend A with his laptop (find a UI action for that)
* OneSwarm copies file Y from the desktop to the laptop over the LAN
* Friend B connects his laptop on Friend A's LAN
* The transfer speeds up and is over while Friend A and Friend B are having a beer

How this is technically possible I have no idea, but it would be really cool and useful.

Posted 2 years ago #
Electronic
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Nice idea!
I accutally think this is already possible. If the Y file is in the same swarm on Friend B's both computers. Friend A's computer would simply recnogize the Y-file on Friend B's laptop as a second source when the Laptop is attached to the LAN. And even if the Y-file isn't in the same swarm the function additionally source would recongize it. Sadly I don't know anyone useing OneSwarm closeby.

It would be really nice if someone could test this???

Posted 2 years ago #
arthur.lutz
Member

Hi,

I'm not sure this is really ready in oneswarm : the laptop will not automatically download the Y file from the desktop, this probably works manually and requires Friend B to explicitly tell Friend A which file to "replicate". This is too complicated, you might as well copy the file to a USB drive.

Posted 2 years ago #
Kriss
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Err... Maybe I misunderstood something, but for this to work, Friend B just need to install OneSwarm on desktop and laptop (not just copying them over with same "account"), then he need to share keys with Friend A from desktop and from laptop.
Then he should download swarm from dektop to laptop.
Friend A then have to start downloading swarm from any of Friend B's accounts.
As I understand, that should suffice...

Posted 2 years ago #
arthur.lutz
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Kriss : yes, I know the oneswarm has a different key on laptop and desktop. What I would like to have automated is the "he should download swarm from desktop to laptop"... this step requires planning and manual manipulation, which I would like to avoid : automated plug'n'play would be nice.

Posted 2 years ago #
lah
Member

A friends setting to "mirror this friends swarms" - is what is needed then - so You can tell the laptop to mirror the desktop.

This would be useful for lots of other stuff - like friends that want to help each other to seed.

Posted 2 years ago #
arthur.lutz
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Sure, this feature would be usefull... It's not exactly what is asked for above, one of the downsides of this approach is size on disk : if the desktop has 100G of stuff and you only have 20G available on the laptop, this approach does not work.

But I agree that "mirror this friends swarms" could be good.

Having a "mirror this friends' transfers" would be more what I was looking for.

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