You would need to host "diff" files. Much work on client side to update the file.
I've never created diff files, but shouldn't it take only seconds to process from a script? I doubt it's slower than downloading and decompressing
gz.
Also .txt goes full size thru Internet (can be even packed in the air but still bandwidth takes whole file) so loss of bandwidth.
Rsync can take care of that. Let's test it:
1. I've uncompressed
Bitcoin_addresses_August_29_2026.txt.gz on my server to "test", and downloaded it through compressed
rsync:
sent 43 bytes received 1,75G bytes 1,07M bytes/sec
total size is 2,81G speedup is 1,60
2. I've uncompressed
Bitcoin_addresses_August_30_2026.txt.gz on my server to "test", and downloaded it through compressed
rsync:
sent 424,24K bytes received 1,54G bytes 1,03M bytes/sec
total size is 2,81G speedup is 1,83
This is disappointing. I had higher hopes for
rsync being smart enough to handle this with much less bandwidth.
I don't like neither of these solutions. My own opinion.
Thanks. I'm just looking for an option to keep it online.
@albert0bsd: are updates working on your mirror? Your listing was last updated yesterday, and files that should be deleted are still shown.
I don't know why downloads from this server are now sooooooo slow! It used to be much faster: