Do you save or delete your torrent files? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 month ago by barnaclebill@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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So, yeah: Do you save your torrent files or delete them after you've added them to your favorite torrent client? Why? Not the underlying data, just the torrent files themselves.

I'm undecided. I figure if I save them and back them up to an offline/offsite device, then I can (mostly/hopefully) recover from hardware failure by simply re-adding all the torrent files to my favorite client. The downside is deciding how to organize them.

I'd love to hear from the community on this.

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[-] brygphilomena@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago

I've migrated servers a few times and it's come in handy to have qbitorrent save them to a single folder I can move.

I generally have a couple thousand torrents running keeping some very old stuff alive. I'd rather have them around for server migrations to keep that going, move the data, load the torrent, force recheck.