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bittorrentseedingtorrentaria2

Is it possible to seed only with aria2?

I build a little tool (IoT) with an Intel Compute Stick which downloads a torrent content and then seed it.

And it works.

Now I want to seed the files I have downloaded EVEN after a restart and without re-downloading them (for obvious reasons...)

There is no way to do it with any option on aria2 (here is the doc) and I want to know if there is a trick I can do or any other COMMAND LINE application that can do it ?

Solution

  • It looks like you can do this with the -V option, although it does not look to be very well documented. From this web page:

    You can seed downloaded file using -V option. This will first check piece hashes for the downloaded file.

    aria2c -V -d/path/to/dir file.torrent

    I'd suggest also adding --seed-ratio=0.0 so that you'll seed the file forever:

    aria2c -V --seed-ratio=0.0 -d/path/to/dir file.torrent