Hi all,

Recently switched to a hetzner server (loving the 6TB space compared to the 2TB from my last). I've copied over all my data files to the new server and now I want to setup rtorrent to resume seeding. What's the best way to go about this? The directory structure is slightly different but all files are still stored in the same main folder.

What is the easiest way to go about achieving this?

Originally Posted by RubberToe

Hi all,

Recently switched to a hetzner server (loving the 6TB space compared to the 2TB from my last). I've copied over all my data files to the new server and now I want to setup rtorrent to resume seeding. What's the best way to go about this? The directory structure is slightly different but all files are still stored in the same main folder.

What is the easiest way to go about achieving this?

You can do the following.

Stop rtorrent in both seedboxes.
On the NEW server run this:
rsync -avhSP --stats user@OLDSERVERIP:/home/user/ /home/user/

Of course change the user paths on both source and destination

Originally Posted by masonos

You can do the following.

Stop rtorrent in both seedboxes.
On the NEW server run this:
rsync -avhSP --stats user@OLDSERVERIP:/home/user/ /home/user/

Of course change the user paths on both source and destination

Worked perfectly.

In case anyone else stumbles here as well. What I did after was copy the rtorrent session directory from the old server to the new one. It loaded up all the torrents then I selected all and changed the download located to match the new server. After checking all files, they're now seeding successfully.

You can also use the -z option to compress file data during transfer so you save yourself some bandwidth:

https://download.samba.org/pub/rsync/rsync.html