BlackBox Network
The BlackBox Network is meant as a shared file server network amongst me and my closest friends. Each one offering private storage to the end user(whoever’s house it is in) as well as a common storage amongst the other BlackBoxes. Concept being that when something is tossed into common, it is then shared automatically to all the other boxes. Yes, it’s an automated BitTorrent Mirror System that works in all directions.
Concepts and software expected to be implemented to achieve this setup:
- Ubuntu Server 64Bit
- VPN Data Tunneling
- BitTorrent Technologies — Well… rsync can basically do this, I guess I at least can get a good number of seeds setup in a VPN quickly this way incase someone needs a file and normal methods are too slow
- Cron Automated Scripts to create .torrent files for all contents and autoload them into the master tracker. As well as all other systems to automatically download and constantly seed all files through the VPN network.
I’ve come to think that the easiest way for me to probably come up with this network setup is going to be a collection of cron jobs adding things to the tracker and then having the torrent downloader software just auto download and constantly seed. As well as get setup to resume all seeds when the system comes back up from power failure. Ok well the newer idea I’m getting is a multi-directional rsync of content and .torrent files, this way I can be sitting with my laptop somewhere and have like 6 seeds for the same file at once.
My setup process and scripts will be posted here as the project is able to be assembled. As of now, I need to pick up some 500GB HD’s for my collection of old school Xboxes, and then I guess pick up a few 1TB for the other BlackBoxes.
May end up trying to Dual-Boot the Xboxes with Linux(can’t recall if it was possible or not) and tap them into a network of their own, so that my buddies and I can just boot them to Linux at night to toss movies/music/games content around the Xboxes. That’s a different project for another page for far after this one.