From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 09:55:53 -1000 From: Tim Newsham To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] setting up replica. In-Reply-To: <772d66dacfa5ba74333cb75dfc12f0af@quintile.net> Message-ID: References: <772d66dacfa5ba74333cb75dfc12f0af@quintile.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Topicbox-Message-UUID: ecf1edbc-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > A the log and db files must exist (IE you must touch(1) them) > but their contents is maintained by the replica tools. > > The proto file describes which files/dirs under the replica > clientroot/serverroot you want to be replicated. You must write > this yourself, though it is fully documented, see proto(2). Thanks. It appears I have things working now (at least, I can do pulls successfully). By the way, what is the client proto file for? I am currently living without one. > As you want to replicate between many machines you might be better > off with nemo's repl which was published on here on 9fans recently, > repl appears to be a peer-to-peer rather than client-server system, > though I don't know any other differences (over to you Capt'n ?) I think p9's replica is what I want... Its for a source repository that is shared between several developers. > -Steve Tim N.