Creating a new torrent and seeding with Transmission

You have setup a Transmission server on your Linux box together with Transmisison Web or something along those lines and now you are wondering.. how can I actually seed a NEW file?

I couldn't find a straightforward answer on the web so here is the short tutorial:

  1. Upload your file to your transmission download directory
  2. cd to that directory and create a torrent file (lets say the file you uploaded was called  myfile.rar):
    transmission-create -o myfile.torrent -c "this is my file comment" -t tracker1 -t tracker2 -t tracker3 myfile.rar

    Replace tracker1, tracker3, tracker3, …trackerN with a bunch of trackers. Better specify more than one in case they go down. Here is a cool little list of public trackers.

  3. Download the new .torrent file you just created, open Transmission Web and add the torrent. Since the file already exists in download directory, Transmisison will just revalidate the data and start seeding. *mind blown*
  4. Distribute the torrent file to your people or generate a magnet link with
    transmission-show -m myfile.torrent

     

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