I prefer restic for my backups. There’s nothing inherently wrong with just making a copy if that is sufficient for you though. Restic will create small point in time snapshots as compared to just a file copy so I’m the event that perhaps you made a mistake and accidentally deleted something from the “live” copy and managed to propagate that to your backup it is a nonissue as you could simply restore from a previous snapshot.

These snapshots can also be compressed and deduplicated making them extremely space efficient.

Just look at the bit rate of what you are streaming and multiply it by 3 then add a little extra for overhead.

Ah, I was wondering why I couldn’t get it to detect my yubikey. I saw keepassxc-full in the repo but that also didn’t seem to work. I’ll have to revisit it.

What exactly do you mean by “not mountable”?

The primary reason a private track is private is to make it feasible to maintain a curated community. Many users are not good torrent citizens. Many users are not good netizens in the first place. More than a few will look to actively do harm. Keeping a mostly closed community allows the vetting of users and those who end up breaking the rules are dealt with swiftly.

The extra barrier of entry also helps prevent bad actors from operating on the site. This is of course not a full proof thing but it is obviously much better than a public site.

Additionally running a private tracker and site takes server resources that are not free. Limiting the total number of users is a way of maintaining uptime by staying within your operational limits.

I’m sure there are other benefits for private trackers but these are at least a few.

I am not going to explain why someone on the internet was mean to you. Given the tone of this post I wouldn’t be surprised if it was deserved.

Are you asking about why private trackers are private or are you asking about why a handful of people were mean to you who also happened to use a private tracker?

Edit: typo

Debian for all things.

Add a test folder, add some data, delete the test root folder and see if it deletes the data.

Error message? Nextcloud logs?

Can’t tell you whats happening without information about what’s happening other than “it doesn’t work”.

But I wasn’t even talking about vpns. Just private trackers and how to get into them.

I don’t see how thats relevant.

Depends on which tracker. In general though invites and you get invites by association with relevant groups. Sometimes open registration occurs (though rarely) an other times the trakcer may do interviews.

It mostly comes down to time and patience.

If I’m supposed to be reading that top comment I don’t see where you state what your results were. You apparently “had errrors” but neglected to note any down and now “you don’t” have errors.

Replace existing online services you use with self hosted ones.

Replace existing online services you use with self hosted ones.

This it should be no issue for you to copy and paste that answer in our conversation.

And what exactly happens?

You tried what exactly earlier today?

I do exactly this as well.

Symlinks likely wouldn’t work for a torrent, because that’s more like a shortcut; The symlink doesn’t actually point to the file, it just points to another filepath.

They are kinda like a shortcut but they are resolved directly by the filesystem and in the fast majority of cases should work perfectly fine if done correctly. In OPs case I’d probably leave the original file intact and create the link at the new desired destination.

You can’t have a hardlink for your C: drive on your D: drive

Thats why I didn’t recommend hardlinks. But I misread OPs post and I see the data will all live on the same drive so I revise my original suggestion and also recommend hardlinks.

But a torrent client likely won’t be able to handle the “oh actually you need to go visit location B” instructions, and will just crash/freeze/refuse to seed.

You’re just pulling that out of your ass.

*all of this is largely under the context of linux but should translate to windows