Introduction

Minion, which achieves an approach to maximize utilization of broadband traffic like BT, implemented by python and based on HTTP protocol

Minion can be easily used to dispatch data, similar to curl/wget. It also provides python API libs.

Installtion

minion cli need python 2.7, requests

minion tracker need python 2.7, django mysql

git clone git://github.com/alibaba/minion
cd minion
pip install -r requirements.txt
python setup.py install

Usage

deploy your tracker server

tracker need django mysql

python tracker/manage.py syncdb
python tracker/manage.py runserver # or use wsgi/nginx

try your minion cli

minion get http://foo.bar/testfile \
     --tracker some.tracker.server \
     --dest-path=/tmp/tops1 \
     --upload-rate 10M \
     --download-rate 100M \
     --callback delete \
     --upload-time 5 \
     --fallback

• --tracker specify tracker
• --dest-path specify the path data will be wrote to, default to current dir
• --upload-time specify time for upload after download complete, default to 60s
• --download-rate --upload-rate specify rate for upload/download can used with unit, like 10M
• --fallback option, if no resource exists in tracker download directly from origin url
• --callback
• --verbose for more log

Framework

Minion work as picture below

PEER: The host ready to download SOURCE TRACKER: The host manage PEERs and SOURCEs SOURCE: URL of some data

STEP

1. PEER0 access TRACKER to get peers that was uploading SOURCE, TRACKER return null
2. PEER0 get SOURCE from origin url directly
3. PEER0 upload SOURCE, telling that to TRACKER
4. PEER1 do like step 1，return a list contain PEER0
5. PEER1 get SOURCE from PEER0
6. PEER1 do like step 3

License

Minion as a whole is released under the GNU General Public License version 2.

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