move the Deluge database to a new machine
Posted: Thu Mar 28, 2019 2:56 am
I like Deluge, but the documentation is kind of skimpy and I find this forum very unfriendly. Take a look, there are many very reasonable questions each with thousands of views and not one suggestion. It may be that this system is so technical, multi-platform and complex that it attracts very technical users who can’t be bothered to be helpful. But I’ll try.
I started out to play around with torrents using a spare Windows XP laptop. Good for almost nothing else but it can run Deluge. I purchased a VPN service which I could only get working sometimes, it’s not really for XP. Not too worried, I’m collecting old British TV shows which nobody cares about anyway. So, Deluge 1.3.15 on XP. Works perfect. I just leave the XP machine running 24/7 with more than 200 torrents most with ratios of more than 400. There’s a lot of interest in old British TV shows.
I wanted a more reliable VPN and a much larger disk so I bought a Windows 10 machine and a terabyte drive. The goal was to move my torrents onto a new deluge install.
So, the target is W10, same Deluge version. I read what there is here and I figured that I need to find the XP ‘state’ folder which contains the torrent files and move it to the W10 machine. The payload files I moved from one usb drive to the much larger usb drive maintaining the same drive letter.
Everything moved fine but nothing works. Deluge lists my torrents but almost all of them show a “tracker error”. None of the old files will seed but new ones will download and seed.
I’ve tried “force recheck” of everything, VPN or no VPN, pause everything and restart everything, update trackers.. No joy. Any suggestions?
I started out to play around with torrents using a spare Windows XP laptop. Good for almost nothing else but it can run Deluge. I purchased a VPN service which I could only get working sometimes, it’s not really for XP. Not too worried, I’m collecting old British TV shows which nobody cares about anyway. So, Deluge 1.3.15 on XP. Works perfect. I just leave the XP machine running 24/7 with more than 200 torrents most with ratios of more than 400. There’s a lot of interest in old British TV shows.
I wanted a more reliable VPN and a much larger disk so I bought a Windows 10 machine and a terabyte drive. The goal was to move my torrents onto a new deluge install.
So, the target is W10, same Deluge version. I read what there is here and I figured that I need to find the XP ‘state’ folder which contains the torrent files and move it to the W10 machine. The payload files I moved from one usb drive to the much larger usb drive maintaining the same drive letter.
Everything moved fine but nothing works. Deluge lists my torrents but almost all of them show a “tracker error”. None of the old files will seed but new ones will download and seed.
I’ve tried “force recheck” of everything, VPN or no VPN, pause everything and restart everything, update trackers.. No joy. Any suggestions?