>>>> You shouldn't run into problems doing a direct copy, assuming you >>>> change the four ports mentioned in freenet.ini. You will simply have >>>> multiple instances of freenet running, each accessible via it's own >>>> http port, each accessing it's own udp data pipes/local sockets. I >>>> think. >>> thank you for getting back to me. >>> If I understand you correctly, if I copy the "freenet" >>> directory/subdirectories from machine A to another machine in a >>> different geographical location, say machine B, I don't need to do >>> anything but start the service (run.sh start). All of my >>> configuration files, trusted friends, etc. will be duplicated from >>> machine A to machine B. Then, a new KEY will be issued by machine B >>> that I can use to make friends with machine A. Correct? >> Oh ... hrmm ... right, each node has it's "identity key" ... stored in >> the opennet-OPENNETPORT and node-DARKNETPORT files. I'm not sure what >> would happen if two nodes with the same "identities" run at the same >> time. (They will, of course, but I'm not sure what, if any, collisions >> will happen. I don't think I want to find out either :b.) Perhaps (my >> wild guess) if you delete these two files they will be regenerated? > > There is yet another problem. The cache (both of them) will contain > information from the originating Machine A. > It seems, there is no easy way to clone. > I'm currently working on a bartPE install of Freenet. I have a working system now (I'll post that in the thread I started about this), however I hit the same type of problems.
What I did in the end was to install freenet on a clean PC, run the wizard once and then copy all the installation files - but I emptied the datastore directory. When Freenet is started it recognises that the datastore is empty and corrects itself. It seems I had to keep the caches (node.db4o(.crypt), temp-PORTNUMBER and persistent-temp-PORTNUMBER) otherwise freenet bombs out with a complaint that these didn't exist although I suspect there's a configuration I could set in freenet.ini that stops that error (anyone know what it is?) Also, I hit the dreaded 'service didn't respond to signal' problem. I solved that by running Freenet using the wrapper with the -c switch to run as a console application rather than as a service. _______________________________________________ Support mailing list Support@freenetproject.org http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.freenet.support Unsubscribe at http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support Or mailto:support-requ...@freenetproject.org?subject=unsubscribe
