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Updating Fast resume section on Common tasks page

chros73
2016-08-25 16:17:25 +01:00
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@@ -238,16 +238,10 @@ See `Auto-Scraping <https://github.com/rakshasa/rtorrent/wiki/Auto-Scraping>`_ W
Adding fast resume data to torrent files
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When you are the first seeder for a torrent, rTorrent will normally have to hash-check all files even if you just created the torrent file from them and thus know that they are correct. To eliminate this step, the following Perl script by Josef Drexler can add rTorrent's fast resume data to the torrent file: `rtorrent_fast_resume.pl <https://github.com/rakshasa/rtorrent/blob/master/doc/rtorrent_fast_resume.pl>`_.
When you are the first seeder for a torrent or you already have the data from somewhere else, rTorrent will normally have to hash-check all files even if you just created the torrent file from them and thus know that they are correct. To eliminate this step, the following Perl script by Josef Drexler can add rTorrent's fast resume data to the torrent file: `rtorrent_fast_resume.pl <https://github.com/rakshasa/rtorrent/blob/master/doc/rtorrent_fast_resume.pl>`_.
Usage:
.. code-block::
$ rtorrent_fast_resume.pl [base-directory] < plain.torrent > with_fast_resume.torrent
or
.. code-block::
$ rtorrent_fast_resume.pl [base-directory] plain.torrent [with_fast_resume.torrent]
@@ -260,6 +254,8 @@ Note that this script requires the ``Convert::Bencode_XS`` module from CPAN, if
$ perl -MCPAN -e 'install Convert::Bencode_XS'
If you're having trouble installing it on newer perl versions then take a look at the first comment of `this issue <https://github.com/rakshasa/rtorrent/issues/489>`_.
Starting rTorrent on System Startup
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