Woops just read your email properly lol :)
...running a test and the sync looks to be working well:
[root@ghost foobar]# time zsync
http://obelisk.secseq.com/obelisk_blockchain.tar.zsync
#################### 100.0% 10816.0 kBps DONE
No relevent local data found - I will be downloading the whole file. If
that's not what you want, CTRL-C out. You should specify the local file
is the old version of the file to download with -i (you might have to
decompress it with gzip -d first). Or perhaps you just have no data that
helps download the file
downloading from
http://obelisk.secseq.com/obelisk_blockchain.tar:
-------------------- 3.6% 13501.2 kBps 49:34 ETA
zsync for centos 6x (64) if anyone needs:
# yum localinstall -y
http://pkgs.repoforge.org/zsync/zsync-0.6.2-1.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm
On 10/05/14 16:34, David Stark wrote:
>
> Excellent, electrum foundry for obelisk :-)
>
> I'd like to help with the hosting grazcoin could you email me directly
> so we can maybe set something up?
>
> zsync looks fun, do you know if we can run the server side over https
> and on an arbitrary port? A Startssl cert should do I think and I
> could plausibly have a backup mirror setup in France with some basic
> ddos protection.
>
> Wondering if we can offload it with CloudFlare now :-)
>
>
>
> On 10 May 2014 16:06:44 BST, Amir Taaki <genjix@???> wrote:
>
> That looks great. If I have an easy way to distribute the blockchain, so
> people can sync and re-sync, resume downloads .etc then I will put up a
> public mirror.
>
> I'll test it on my server.
>
> Thanks
>
> On 10/05/14 12:15, grazcoin wrote:
>
> Hi guys, As we all know it takes ages to download and validate
> the blockchain within the obelisk. I am trying to introduce a
> shortcut for fast deployment. It comes on the expense of trust
> though. Once a user is done with obelisk compilation, he can
> download the tar of blockchain directory using: zsync
> http://obelisk.secseq.com/obelisk_blockchain.tar.zsync
> remarks: 1. current snapshot was taken at block 299838 2.
> http://obelisk.secseq.com and
> https://masterchain.info/downloads are the same directory,
> only the first serves http which is needed for zsync 3. The
> zsync will download only the required difference if an older
> snapshot exists, and will resume broken downloads. 4. signed
> md5sums at https://masterchain.info/downloads/MD5SUMS.asc 5. I
> am still not sure that the webserver is properly configured to
> support zsync the best way, but hopefully it is. My bandwidth
> at home is too slow to really testing it. Anyone? Grazcoin
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