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zenlord

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2006-05-24

Posts: 1,221

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rtorrent: delay activation of torrent

Hi,

I'm using rtorrent for a while now and I am very pleased with it, except for the fact that the config file is rather hard to get used to.

Since I have a monthly downloadlimit, I would like to schedule all downloads starting at 0:00AM (My downloads between 0:00 and 10:00AM count for only half the used bandwidth).I find a lot of 'schedule'-commands in the configfile, but none *seem* to be relevant.

So, in short: how do I delay (activation of) a torrentfile that is in the watch-dir?

THX!

sand_man

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From: Australia

Registered: 2008-06-10

Posts: 2,164

Re: rtorrent: delay activation of torrent

I have my watch folder and set a cron job to move torrents in and out of it and specified times.
As far as I know, there is no way to move torrents like that or schedule times within rtorrentrc

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labox

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2009-01-06

Posts: 10

Re: rtorrent: delay activation of torrent

Here's an example of scheduled rates.
http://libtorrent.rakshasa.no/wiki/RTor … wnloadrate

Runiq

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From: Germany

Registered: 2008-10-29

Posts: 1,053

Re: rtorrent: delay activation of torrent

Couldn't you just use a cronjob to start/stop rtorrent at the specified times?

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sand_man

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From: Australia

Registered: 2008-06-10

Posts: 2,164

Re: rtorrent: delay activation of torrent

my crontab -e

00 00 * * * mv ~/torrents/nightly/* ~/torrents/go/
00 08 * * * mv ~/torrents/go/* ~/torrents/nightly/

Where '~/torrents/go' is my watch folder.

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