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<h2>Guided Replica</h2>
<b>Wed, 01 Jul 2020 18:30:46 +0200</b>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt"><b>Guided Replica</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt">Today I installed
on my VPS. I noticed that I can write some helper scripts around it
and here they are.
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<span style="font-size: 10pt">You can download them from
</span><span style="font-size: 10pt"><tt>https://sirjofri.de/files/guidedreplica</tt></span><span style="font-size: 10pt">.
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<span style="font-size: 10pt">You can install it like that:
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<span style="font-size: 10pt"><tt># bind your client $home to /n/rclient
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<span style="font-size: 10pt"><tt># bind your server $home to /n/rserver
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<span style="font-size: 10pt"><tt>hget https://sirjofri.de/files/guidedreplica/guidedreplica.rc | rc
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<span style="font-size: 10pt"><tt># follow the prompts
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<span style="font-size: 10pt">This will also install two helper scripts to
</span><span style="font-size: 10pt"><tt>$home/bin/rc/replica/</tt></span><span style="font-size: 10pt">.
Reproto copies one proto over the other. You can choose which one you want to keep.
Reupdate is helpful if there are update-update errors. It should automatically solve them (untested, but should work).
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<span style="font-size: 10pt"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt"><b>Update:</b></span><span style="font-size: 10pt">
has issues. Often it does a bad job tracking changes, leaving removed files there and vice versa. I never encountered data loss, only inconsistencies in the copies.
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<span style="font-size: 10pt">Many people use
which does not overwrite changed files. At some point I will build some scripts around it and use that instead of
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<span style="font-size: 10pt">(Files:
</span><span style="font-size: 10pt"><tt>https://sirjofri.de/files/guidedreplica/README</tt></span><span style="font-size: 10pt">
</span><span style="font-size: 10pt"><tt>https://sirjofri.de/files/guidedreplica/guidedreplica.rc</tt></span><span style="font-size: 10pt">)
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