[ANN] Mining on Amazon Cloud
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I have linked the ACD to a drive letter on my Win10 system and i am building a 7zip files with with all the files on a 1tb disk on my mac machine from across my home network and writing the 7zip file directly to the ACD drive and everything is going smoothly and the biggest files are movies files from my backups of my dvd collection
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@Njcfamily31907 do you mean you are splitting the files you have in a 1Tb drive into 50Gb 7zip parts of a file? if so it will work although i don't recommend ever use a program to write on a cloud because most likely will not work and even if it work it will take much more time to create the files... create them locally then upload will work much faster for sure?!
If you are saying that you are splitting 1Tb plot into a bunch of 50Gb 7zip files i hope you know that you will not be able to mine with it until you decompact it...
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No the Files i am putting in the 1tb drive 7zip is reg files ( a backup of the drive ) so that i can empty the drive and then plot it and then upload the plots
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@Njcfamily31907 Ok so my initial guess was right... although i would recommend to do it locally then upload because will be much faster but if you don't have the available space locally i guess is the only way to work right? xD
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@gpedro Right all my free space on the mac and my win 10 machine is used both systems are less then 1gb free
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@Njcfamily31907 WOW 1 Gb free hahaha
And i thought i was lefting too small space free with my usually 20-30Gb free LOL
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managed to free 250 gb of space on the mac main drive and building the backup file on it in 23gb chunks so i can upload a chunk while it builds the next chunk
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@CoinBuster So just going back to the OP would just like to clarify what you are doing?
Am I correct in thinking that you have an ACD account which you have uploaded 10TB of 50GB plots to?
You then have an EC2 account running jminer accessing the plots on the ACD account?
Rich
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@RichBC Exactly.
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@CoinBuster Glad I have understood, would be great to see a description of how you have set up the EC2 side of things, as I think this is a very neat solution.
Rich
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@RichBC I will free some time to do the tutorial soon. In the meantime you can open a free instance on EC2 either with Windows or Ubuntu. If you need assistance let me know.
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@CoinBuster I have got as far as opening an Instance to Windows Server 2008 R2 and opening a Remote Desktop Connection. ran out of play time at that point.....
Rich
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@RichBC That's a good start. Beware that the free instances have "Burstable performance" (no pun intended, this is how they actually named). This mean that on a t2.micro you are getting 6 cpu points an hour. When your cpu consumption reaches over 20%, they are taking away points. I was mining on this account before so I see no problem, but at higher TB it could drain the points quickly.
If you notice that the mining speed go substantially down or the instance work very slow, check the monitoring tab for the amount of cpu credit left.
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@CoinBuster Thanks for the heads up, although I will be chuffed to bits if i get something running. Am way outside my experience & comfort zone, so need to do a lot of reading, playing and learning at the moment....
Rich
I have loads of questions which can wait till after the Tutorial, but.... which of the various services have you used to map the Amazon Cloud drive as if it was a network drive?
OK found the answer in the Chat NetDrive2
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finally got an answer from Amazon about them locking my account!
What it's basicly saying (in german) is that my "Download activity is widely differing from normal usage" !
does this make sense in english?!Unfortunately I have no Idea what "normal" is!-/
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@nixxda I also had my account locked. made a phone call and the Agent asked no questions and just said he had unlocked it. I chose at this point not to ask why it had been locked. I only have 2TB of plots.
Rich
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@RichBC for me it was the second time! that's why they wanted to check back with an technician.
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@nixxda OK understood. I am having a problem with my uploads using Netdrive2 in that the upload goes fine until it shows 5 Seconds to go, monitoring the Internet the transfer stops / is complete. Then if left some minutes later a second popup appears saying "An unexpected error is keeping you from copying the file" etc. Try again does nothing so I press cancel and the file disapears at the other end.
Now the strange bit, usually but not always some time later (15 Mins I can't remember) the file is then there.
Wonder if you have seen the same thing or what technique you are using for the uploads?
Rich
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@RichBC your Disk is probably full!!?
I had no luck uploading with Netdrive2 2!-) It just fills up the Netdrive/cache with no respect to size limit! But for reading big and fast cache is good.I use "GoodSync" for uploading. It will still through some timeout error (504 or 405) at the end of each upload but the files will be there after a while!
sometimes I can upload 20 48GB files until it starts reuploading the files it just finished, sometimes less. Then you'll have to restart the program and wait a bit.
It seams to be an common problem with ACD and file sizes close to max upload size.But GoodSync has been very good to me!-)
I get 40-90Mb/s with two simultaneous uploads.....
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@nixxda Yes I also had the cache problem, it was causing my miner to stop, took a while to work out what was consuming all the disk space :-) Turned the cache down to 1GB but...
So that is a problem but not the problem.I will try GoodSync and see how I get on with that. I guess the delay must mean that Amazon caches things at there end?
Rich

