Difference between revisions of "Tracker"
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The [http://tracker.archiveteam.org/ Tracker] is the center-pivot of Archiveteam's distributed archiving efforts. The [[ArchiveTeam Warrior|Warrior]] is the yang to the Tracker's yin. | The [http://tracker.archiveteam.org/ Tracker] is the center-pivot of Archiveteam's distributed archiving efforts. The [[ArchiveTeam Warrior|Warrior]] is the yang to the Tracker's yin. The warriors get the list of current projects from [http://warriorhq.archiveteam.org/]. | ||
For most projects, the [http://tracker.archiveteam.org/ tracker] provides seed points such as usernames, and keeps track of who retrieved what resources and where they're stashed. | |||
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[[User:Alard|alard]] takes care of making the tracker run happily. The custom software is a python based HTTP application that sends and receives JSON payloads and uses Redis for the data store; all on top of Debian Linux. The code is hosted [https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/universal-tracker on GitHub]. | [[User:Alard|alard]] takes care of making the tracker run happily. The custom software is a python based HTTP application that sends and receives JSON payloads and uses Redis for the data store; all on top of Debian Linux. The code is hosted [https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/universal-tracker on GitHub]. | ||
The warriors get the list of current projects from the Warrior HQ. The code is in the [https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/warrior-hq warrior-hq] repository. | |||
Revision as of 19:40, 5 April 2013
The Tracker is the center-pivot of Archiveteam's distributed archiving efforts. The Warrior is the yang to the Tracker's yin. The warriors get the list of current projects from [1].
For most projects, the tracker provides seed points such as usernames, and keeps track of who retrieved what resources and where they're stashed.
Hardware
The tracker runs on a Linode 1024 operated by chronomex. The system is tracked by Munin.
Software
alard takes care of making the tracker run happily. The custom software is a python based HTTP application that sends and receives JSON payloads and uses Redis for the data store; all on top of Debian Linux. The code is hosted on GitHub.
The warriors get the list of current projects from the Warrior HQ. The code is in the warrior-hq repository.