[Foundation-l] Database dumps

Mohamed Magdy mohamed.m.k at gmail.com
Wed Feb 21 11:52:44 UTC 2007


> A download manager is a better way to increase your chances of a clean
> download. Bittorrent only works if you have lots of people downloading
> at the same time (or at least similar enough times that the people
> that have finished haven't given up seeding) - I'm not sure that's the
> case with Wikipedia DB dumps.
> 
If the bandwidth isn't a problem, then you can use web seed[1] to back 
the torrent up when there aren't enough regular seeders. surely, 
bittorrent is the safest way to get uncorrupted downloads.

[1]=http://www.bittornado.com/download.html



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