Synchronize the bot between VMs

[cemycc]

When you have multiple VMs one of the problem that I encountered is to have the bot updated with the new changes (new plugins, updates, ...) and settings.
My idea is to use a private repository on where I push all the bot files and then on every VM, at windows startup, I do a git pull for all the changes.
After that, I need to take care of the bot key and the account related info so this changes will not be overwritten.
Also, I should add on .gitignore the Logs folder.

As a result, you update the bot in one place and then will be automatically updated in all the places.

Will this work or is there something that I miss ?

 

[Tormiasz]

If you have some programming knowledge you could do it like me. I have FTP server and I'm uploading my files to it + checksum files to know if something's changed. Then every few minutes my relogger on the machines is downloading the checksum file, comparing MD5's of it with current files. If it's different, that changed file is getting downloaded.

But you need to handle the situation when it's getting updating while the bot is running. You need to close the bot first in that case.

I didn't try with git, might work but versioning of all the files will eat your space so fast.


PS: Anyone who is thinking about it. please do not PM me if I'll share my relogger/updater. I won't.

 

[cemycc]

For the situation when the bot is running, I will not have this problem because I update the files when the VMs are restarted or when I kill them.

Indeed a git repo can use allot of space because it needs to keep track of all the commits and versions of the files, but I think that if I run a git clean --auto on every restart it will free some space.
I need to test it to see what happens exactly.

 

[Boom Fish]

Can you not just have one master vm and share the folders you need to with the other clone vms so that you only have to update the master?

 

[cemycc]

Can you not just have one master vm and share the folders you need to with the other clone vms so that you only have to update the master?

I don't like the idea of using the same files on multiple instances or using files over local network or creating a virtual hdd and use that on every VM(if is possible with workstation version?)
All of this methods involves multiple operations on the storage devices.

Besides that what you do when you have multiple PCs or your botting PC is running esxi or any virtualization operating system ?