@bstar97 said:

Hello

I know this is kind of a stupid question but like the title says, would downloading my own uploaded torrents affect my ratios/download limits etc. etc.

I'm trying to upload my porn here as backup and to free up storage (to download more porn of course haha) and I'm wondering if I could do that.
There's always old porn you wanna come back to and this site is very great as archive.

Thanks for answering.

Suppose you upload 300 GB from your collection. You get at least 300 GB of upload traffic for that. When you come back and want to download your own torrents again, it will use 300 GB of download traffic, taking you to exactly where your ratio was before you uploaded it.

The Problems:
1 - If you use the site to download other people's torrents, there's no guarantee that you will have enough buffer to download your own torrents.
2 - If you ever need to re-download your torrents a second time, it will require an additional 300 GB that you might be unable to afford.
3 - There is no guarantee whatsoever that the torrents you make will stay online, they can be removed for copyright or die because everyone who downloaded it stopped seeding, leaving you with no way of recovering the files.

Torrent is not a good backup medium, because once you don't have the files anymore, you're completely out of control.

As soon as you've uploaded 100% to someone, that person also becomes a potential seed. It doesn't always work out that way, of course, but it also doesn't work out that you get huge credit, even if a torrent is popular.

Example: I uploaded a 9.39GB torrent on the 25th April. My upload credit is now 21.5GB (228%). However, it has been snatched twenty-six times, and there are currently a dozen others seeding it. It is likely that many of those will only seed short term, then delete the torrent, if not the files themselves, so it will drop to only two or three seeders. I'll then get a bigger share of the pie again, but it's also likely that takers for that particular torrent will be infrequent as well. You're no longer offering to people thinking "ooh, that look fun" but to people looking to complete a collection, or who have just discovered a particular performer they'd not known about before, and are looking for more of his output, etc.

I'm with @frostycab on the solution being to increase your own local storage.

A tip that works for me is that I split my downloads into "Short term" and "Long term". Not only by tagging it so (I use qBittorrent where it's incredibly easy. Don't know about other clients) but literally. Once downloaded, most goes into the "short term" pot, and I copy it into a "holding area". Here I can prune, rename, restructure, convert format, etc., to my heart's content without disrupting my seeding ability.

I monitor my short term seeding space, deleting stuff when it no longer earns its keep and | or in accordance with space availability. Some of the stuff that I do decide to keep permanently can also be "long term" seeded, which both continually dripfeeds my ratio, and keeps torrents accessible to other members.

You upload a 2GB film to the site, and lots of people download it. You may 30 to 100GB of upload traffic as people download it from you because you're sending the same pieces of the file to multiple people.

You then delete your local copy of the file, but a year later you decide you want to watch it again, so you download it from the site. That download is only going to be 2GB, i.e. the actual size of the original file you uploaded. So what you've done is uploaded perhaps 100GB and downloaded 2GB, leaving you with a net gain of 98GB.

The danger of trying to "store" your films this way is that there's a chance that others will delete, re-encode, trim or somehow change the file to suit their own needs, meaning that the original file you uploaded might have disappeared resulting in a dead torrent. You might have to resort to a reseed request, but then you're relying on someone having the original file, actually reading their messages and seeing the automated request, and then hunting through their drives trying to find the files and then bothering to load them into their client.

You might have guessed by now that I've opted for the "I'll just get another USB hard drive" approach myself.

but yeah, if downloading my own torrents in the future counts against my ratio then I can't do anything about it lol

@frostycab said:

unless there's only a single leecher, always result in more upload traffic than you'd spend downloading it again.

I'm quite confused here. Does it mean I get upload credits even if I delete the file in my storage? Or the usual seeding that I have to keep the file.

Correct me if i'm wrong, didnt it work like this?:
More seeders means less upload bytes I'll send so less upload credits.