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So i have something of the order of 15 Amiga's now and with the advent of the ESP8266 i've got many of them on my local LAN network.

I'd like to be able to keep a single network storage location up to date with a standard WHDLoad and other games i'd like sync'd onto all my machines.

Any suggestions for solutions? I'd rather not use samba for speed reasons (plus i want to be able to sync and go offline). I heard that Backup will do the job. However i've done this sort of thing in anger commercially with rsync in the past but that isnt readily available.

However i'd like a few opinions on this.

I wonder if you could reverse engineer the protocol that Amiga Explorer uses and talk to the client running on the Amigas using a Linux box determining what's on the Amiga HD and then modifying as appropriate.

stephen_usher wrote: 04 Apr 2020 21:55 I wonder if you could reverse engineer the protocol that Amiga Explorer uses and talk to the client running on the Amigas using a Linux box determining what's on the Amiga HD and then modifying as appropriate.

Interesting thought... i think its long overdue that we worked out the AExplorer protocol

Not very technical, but Zeb from South West Amiga Group (and other places) updates a 8GB .img when new WHDLoad games & demos are released.
It just boots to standard workbench and files are in folders. So no quick ArcadeGameSelector2 etc menu.
I store the .img on my PC then just write to CF for use on my A1200/CD32. Would probably boot on A500 etc with some of your cards installed.

Higgy wrote: 04 Apr 2020 23:05 Not very technical, but Zeb from South West Amiga Group (and other places) updates a 8GB .img when new WHDLoad games & demos are released.
It just boots to standard workbench and files are in folders. So no quick ArcadeGameSelector2 etc menu.
I store the .img on my PC then just write to CF for use on my A1200/CD32. Would probably boot on A500 etc with some of your cards installed.

Yeah its mostly the same idea here but the trouble is thats too much effort when 15 machines need updated.

Remember computers were invented to automate the tasks that are repetitive... they all get together at night to laugh at those of us who do the tasks ourselves manually.

Looks like there is a version of rsync on sminet. I haven't tried it. Could in theory modify it to never use rolling checksum mode, only ever compare on size/timestamp and do full copies.

But a better idea might be a whdload. wrapper that just retrieves the game you want using samba or nfs or whatever and either installs it out runs it from ram.

dalek wrote: 04 Apr 2020 23:37 Looks like there is a version of rsync on sminet. I haven't tried it. Could in theory modify it to never use rolling checksum mode, only ever compare on size/timestamp and do full copies.

Rolling checksum mode is freaking awesome. BUT... i'm not sure how the feable Amiga would cope with it.. I've used this mode to do database replication between machines when the custom database didnt support perfect replication itself. Its the mutts nuts for minimal updates.

But a better idea might be a whdload. wrapper that just retrieves the game you want using samba or nfs or whatever and either installs it out runs it from ram.

That works until you want to go offline with your updated database i guess.

I have a solution that use a util called MirrorCopy. I never got the rsync from aminet working, so this was the best thing I came up with.

http://aminet.net/package/util/cli/MirrorCopy

So I typically mount my source dir as amshare: with smbmount and run this script:
System:Programs/MirrorCopy/mirrorcopy amshare:Games games: BUF=512 ALL VERBOSE

nico wrote: 06 Apr 2020 18:19 I have a solution that use a util called MirrorCopy. I never got the rsync from aminet working, so this was the best thing I came up with.

http://aminet.net/package/util/cli/MirrorCopy

So I typically mount my source dir as amshare: with smbmount and run this script:
System:Programs/MirrorCopy/mirrorcopy amshare:Games games: BUF=512 ALL VERBOSE

Thats a good shout.

I'd seen a program called csync too ... a more lightweight version of rsync.

Sorry for the perhaps basic question, but could someone point me in the direction of this ESP8266 wifi for amiga, has a tutorial or guide been made somewhere? I'd like to get my Amiga connected to wifi, I currently use Roadshow tcpip stack and a pcmcia ethernet using Cnet driver. I was gonna get a wifi bridge but then I saw this thread..