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The Replicator Manual

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Download the entire CMP (Canadian Mind Products) Website using the Replicator.
Introduction Client Station Requirements What Is Not Included
Trying the Replicator Deploying Trouble Shooting
Why Use The Replicator? Creating Replicator Distribution CDs Netload Tips
How To Administer The Replicator Files Optional Features
Features Detailed Instructions Running Without Java Web Start
Configuring Crash Recovery The Competition
Client Use Reinstall rsync
SneakerNet/LAN Use Moving Directories Futures
Dial Up Use Uninstall Summary
Web Server Requirements Cost Links
Master Station Requirements What Is Included

Introduction

The purpose of the Replicator is to efficiently replicate a set of files on many machines over the Internet from a master copy. It consists of two parts:
  1. A Java utility that prepares the master files for uploading to a website by compacting the HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) (removing unnecessary white space), collecting the files by age and bundling them in compressed Zip format.
  2. A Java Web Start Application that each client runs any time they wish to bring their copy of the files up to date. It visits the website, collects the new files, unpacks and decompresses them. The website files may optionally be protected by a login userid/password.
The Replicator can also be thought of as an efficient way to backup your crucial files to a website or CD (Compact Disc). It automatically detects changed files, compresses them, and bundles them into archives. You don’t have to backup everything, only what has changed. It automatically repacks old archives containing excessive deadwood.

Trying the Replicator

You can use the Replicator to download the entire compressed mindprod.com website and keep your copy up to date efficiently. You can try it out here. That is probably the best way to see how the Replicator would look to your clients. The client-side is pretty simple — select two emtpy directories. All the complexity on the server side.

Why Use The Replicator?

How To Administer The Replicator

Prepare the master copy of the files in a single directory tree representing the website. You can create new files, delete files or update the files with any tools you please. You can build indexes on these files or use any other such tools you want. There is no restriction of what sorts of files these are. They may be HTML, PDF (Portable Document Format), EXE or even ZIP.

After you have done a batch of changes that you want to propagate, start a bat file called PREPARE.BAT by clicking the item in your start menu or the desktop icon.

PREPARE.BAT/PREPARE.BTM creates compressed summary bundle zips of files that have recently changed and uploads them to your website using a third party program such as NetLoad. Netload automatically removes deleted files from the website. If your website supports it, rsynch will do the job even more efficiently and reliably.

Normally you would upload your website both in compressed and expanded form, though the expanded form is optional.

It will display some statistics roughly like this: view

At any time a client wants to get the freshest files, they simply click Replicator Update on a web page, or click Replicator on the start menu or a desktop icon. The rest is fully automatic. When it is done, the files will be sitting on their local hard disk decompressed, identical copies to the master. The client program automatically fetches only what is needed. It does not need the help of any third party software such as a browser or FTP (File Transfer Protocol) program.

Features

Configuring

The master sending station configures the whole process by filling in a form called replicator.properties like this. The # lines are comments.

Client Use

The client just clicks on a link on a webpage in a browser to install the software. Alternatively he/she can type javaws to start Java Web Start, then feed the URL (Uniform Resource Locator) of the jnlp file e.g. http://mindprod.com/replicator/replicatorreceiverwebsite.jnlp to Java Web Start to install the program. The client then fills in a screen that looks like this:

replicator screen shot

On subsequent uses, all the client has to do is click OK without filling in any fields.

If later you change you mind about where you want to keep your base and staging directories, just move them with their contents to some new location and when you next use the Replicator configure the two new locations is before you hit OK.

SneakerNet/LAN Use

Sometimes clients may not have a direct Internet connection. They must use an indirect approach to getting get their files. A computer with Internet access gets the latest files using the JWS (Java Web Start) client software using the alternative replicatorreceiverrelay.jnlp so that they will hold onto the zip files for others. (These jnlp files are minor variants of the usual replicator.jnlp that passes different parameter values to the replicator client program.) Then someone has to burn all the zip files and the latest zipmanifest.ser file in the receiver’s staging directory onto CD (or a stack of floppies, perhaps one zip file to a floppy) and carry them across to the computer or LAN (Local Area Network) that has no Internet access. From there the client software can retrieve just the new files directly from the CD (details later), or from a shared copy of the CD put on a LAN server, or from a copy of the files put on an internal website HTTP server or fileserver using yet another version of the jnlp file called replicatorreceiverlan.jnlp.

The only tricky part is figuring out the URL for where the zip files are stored. Try this technique to discover it. Put a dummy temp.html file in the LAN directory where the zip files and the zipmanifest.ser are. Now try to open it with your browser from the machine running the replicator receiver, using file open or whatever other techniques you have, e.g. drag and drop. When you finally get it viewed, you will see its URL on the top line. Use that as a model to create the URL for the LAN directory. If that URL does not work, convert any vertical bars in the URL to colons.

The URL will likely have the form file://machinename/sharename/directory Look in your Network Neighbourhood to discover the machinenames and sharenames. You can also assign the remote directory a local drive letter so that it appears as if it were on your local machine. Then the URL becomes file:/X:/somedirectory

You can also test the Replicator echoing files back to the same machine, without uploading to a website, by using replicatorreceivertest.jnlp.

Dial Up Use

Getting started from scratch with a dial up Internet connection would take an inordinately long time. What you want to do is send someone a CD to get them started and from then on get their updates via dialup Internet connection.

Web Server Requirements

Master Station Requirements

Client Station Requirements

Deploying

You download a customized version of the program from my website, then install it as you would any other Windows program. Then you fine tune the replicator.properties file. I should have it pre-set up for you correctly. Then you click PREPARE, which prepares zips and uploads them to your website. Your clients need a link to the replicatorreceiverwebsite.jnlp file that either they click in their browser or type directly into javaws.exe. When they click it will automatically install, download and decompress the files.

Creating Replicator Distribution CD s

To produce a CD distribution to rapidly get a client started, just burn the contents of the SENDER_ZIP_STAGING_DIR onto the root directory of CD. Don’t create a SENDER_ZIP_STAGING_DIR directory on the CD! Put the files directly into the root.

Include everything in the SENDER_ZIP_STAGING_DIR, namely the ZIP files, a copy of the replicatorreceiver.jar, the JNLP (Java Network Launching Protocol) files, freshness.ser, the setup.exe, the replicator.png and replicator.ico files. Here is a checklist of the files that should be on the CD. They should all be there without special effort on your part.

Do not include the files in the program directory such as replicatorsender.exe or replicatorsender.jar. Also possibly include a copy of the offline Java JRE also onto the root directory of the CD.

Make copies of the CD and send them out by mail. To install the software, just insert the CD in the CD ROM (Read Only Memory) drive.

You send up updates the same way. Clients will automatically copy in just the files they need even though the complete set of files are on the CD.

When you run setup from CD, it will install the client Java Web Start application software and unpack the distributed data files in the zips. The JRE is there just in case the client did not have a recent Java already installed, (which includes the Java Web Start runtime). All the client need to is insert the CD to invoke the autorun feature to install the program and datafiles. If that does not work, the client can jump start the process by going to a DOS (Disk Operating System) box and typing

// make the CD the current drive, presumably R:
R:
setup.exe
Change the letter R to whatever your CDROM (Compact Disc Read Only Memory) drive letter is. If even that does not work try:
Click Java Web Start to launch it.
Click view ⇒ Downloaded Applications.
Type file://localhost/R:/replicatorreceivercd R.jnlp
Click Start.
where R is the drive letter of the CD.

If your CDROM drive letter is not R: you can adjust it to be. Right Click My Computer ⇒ Manage ⇒ Device Manager Storage ⇒ Disk Management alternatively Settings ⇒ Control Panel ⇒ Administrative Tools ⇒ Computer Management ⇒ Storage ⇒ Disk Management

The client can then continue via website updates or LAN updates or further CD updates.

You can also create CDs at remote stations by using the replicatorreceiverrelay.jnlp to download the zips from the website. Burn a CD consisting of the all the files in the relay receiver’s zip staging directory.

Files

You may be curious what all the various files are for. You don’t need to understand any of this to use the Replicator.
File Purpose
*.class compiled Java classes
*.java Java source code
ant.xml compiles everything and prepares jars. Only used if you customise the program yourself.
autorun.inf kicks off an install from CD
freshness.ser Lets the client know if any of its auxiliary files have gone stale and need to be redownloaded.
mindprodcert2017rsa.cer public key code signing certificate. You may optionally install this into Java Web Start so that it automatically trusts the Canadian Mind Products digital signatures.
prepare.bat prepare a set of zips for distribution, using either java.exe or JET natively compiled code.
receiver.log Human-readable log of what the Replicator did on the client.
receiver.ser persistent state of client target. Remembers what it was doing last time.
replicator.ico Replicator logo in Windows format.
replicator.jar collected class files to run the client receiver.
replicator.png Replicator logo in Internet format.
replicator.properties Master configuration file for sender.
replicatorreceivercdX.jnlp Java web Start declarations for download from a CD. There is a different one for each possible CD drive letter A through Z.
replicatorreceiverlan.jnlp Java web Start declarations for download from a LAN
replicatorreceiverrelay.jnlp Java web Start declarations for download zips, for later relay to off-net clients
replicatorreceivertest.jnlp Java web Start declarations for download from sending site, loopback test.
replicatorreceiverwebsite.jnlp Java web Start declarations for download from a Website.
replicatorsender.exe JET (Just Enough Time) natively compiled version of the sender for extra speed.
replicatorsender.jar collected class files to run the sender.
sender.log Human-readable log of what the Replicator did on the sender.
sender.ser persistent state of sender. Remembers what was doing last.
setup.exe kicks off an install from CD
startover.bat Used to start from scratch. Erases all zips and starts afresh generating them, e.g. start renumbering zips at z1.zip, z2.zip etc. It will not force clients to load everything from scratch. Clients using the Replicator webstart program don’t use zip numbers to track how much they have already downloaded. They use timestamps and application file names. Most clients won’t even notice anything different after you have used start over. The only disruption will be the Replicator will fail during the time the old zips have been deleted from the website and the new ones are still uploading.
zipdetailsmanifest.ser list of current file with dates used by client only automatically downloaded if he wants to verify that all files are received and are still present and accounted for.
zipmanifest.ser Compact list of current zips with dates at the zip level used by client to decide what to download.

Detailed Instructions

There are over 80 ways you can use the Replicator. Select the radio button that best describes where you will get your zip files from the Replicator and then select how you will pass them on to others. Then look in the instruction tab for what you have to do. Some people, especially the author, may use the Replicator many different ways.

This Applet is not yet finished. However, it will give you a rough idea.

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Java Requirements and Troubleshooting

ReplicatorUse is a Java Applet (that can also be run as an application) to Replicator use. You are welcome to install it on your own website. If it does not work…
  1. If Copy/Paste (Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V) do not work, you can turn them back on by modifying your java.policy file. This is not for the novice or faint of heart. instructions Your alternative is to download this program and run it without a browser.
  2. In the Java Control Panel security tab, click Start ⇒ Control Panel ⇒ Programs ⇒ Java ⇒ Security, configure medium security to allow self-signed and vanilla unsigned applets to run. If medium is not available, or if Java security is blocking you from running the program, configure high security and add http://mindprod.com to the Exception Site List at the bottom of the security tab.
  3. Often problems can be fixed simply by clicking the reload button on your browser.
  4. Make sure you have both JavaScript and Java enabled in your browser.
  5. Make sure the Java in your browser is enabled in the security tab of the Java Control panel. Click Start ⇒ Control Panel ⇒ Programs ⇒ Java ⇒ Security ⇒ Enable Java Content in the browser.
  6. This Java Applet (that can also be run as an application) needs 32-bit or 64-bit Java 1.8 or later. For best results use the latest 1.8.0_131 Java.
  7. You also need a recent browser.
  8. It works under any operating system that supports Java e.g. W2K, XP, W2003, Vista, W2008, W7-32, W7-64, W8-32, W8-64, W2012, W10-32, W10-64, Linux, LinuxARM, LinuxX86, LinuxX64, Ubuntu, Solaris, SolarisSPARC, SolarisSPARC64, SolarisX86, SolarisX64 and OSX
  9. You should see the Applet hybrid above looking much like this screenshot. If you don’t, the following hints should help you get it working:
  10. Especially if this Applet hybrid has worked before, try clearing the browser cache and rebooting.
  11. To ensure your Java is up to date, check with Wassup. First, download it and run it as an application independent of your browser, then run it online as an Applet to add the complication of your browser.
  12. If the above Applet hybrid does not work, check the Java console for error messages.
  13. If the above Applet hybrid does not work, you might have better luck with the downloadable version available below.
  14. If you are using Mac OS X and would like an improved Look and Feel, download the QuaQua look & feel from randelshofer.ch/quaqua. UnZip the contained quaqua.jar and install it in ~/Library/Java/Extensions or one of the other ext dirs.
  15. Upgrade to the latest version of Internet Explorer or another browser.
  16. Click the Information bar, and then click Allow blocked content. Unfortunately, this also allows dangerous ActiveX code to run. However, you must do this in order to get access to perfectly-safe Java Applets running in a sandbox. This is part of Microsoft’s war on Java.
  17. Try upgrading to a more recent version of your browser, or try a different browser e.g. Firefox, SeaMonkey, IE or Avant.
  18. If you still can’t get the program working click the red HELP button below for more detail.
  19. If you can’t get the above Applet hybrid working after trying the advice above and from the red HELP button below, have bugs to report or ideas to improve the program or its documentation, please send me an email atemail Roedy Green.
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Crash Recovery

In a drastic situation, you can run the startover.bat file that erases all the zips and starts afresh.

If for some reason you had to restore old zips from backup, all should recover just fine, even though the second time through, you may generate slightly different new zip files. This is because the client software works by tracking the last file date it has received, no the last zip file number. The clients won’t notice anything unusual.

Similarly if the client has to restore old files to his staging directory and base directory, it will automatically catch up on the next visit to the server. He does not have to erase and start over, though that may be necessary if his files are badly corrupted.

You can view the replicatorreceiver.log file to see a detailed picture of what your session did. This may be helpful in diagnosing any failures.

You may notice the Replicator often skips over downloading some zip files in the sequence. It does this whenever there are even more up-to-date versions of those files in subsequent zips or when you already have the latest versions of the files they contain. This happens especially when the Replicator repacks old zips to remove deadwood (old versions or deleted versions of files), assigning them to new zip numbers.

Moving Directories

You may move the base directory and the zip staging directory to another drive, or rename them, or both, if, when you run the Replicator receiver next time, you remember to reconfigure the base and zip stating directory names before you start the download. If you delete the files in the zip staging directory, the Replicator will start from scratch and redownload all the files. It won’t however, delete files in the base directory, just replace them with ones from the server, so normally it is best to delete files and directories in the base directory too if you want to start over.

Reinstall

If the Replicator stops working for any reason, you can try a simple uninstall/reinstall. click Start ⇒ Control Panel ⇒ Programs ⇒ Uninstall a Program. Check that the latest Java is installed and that Java Web Start is installed in your browser. Click the link to launch the Replicator. It will reinstall.

Uninstall

Sometimes the Windows uninstall is not thorough. Here is how you can uninstall manually:
  1. Uninstall the Replicator via the Control Panel with: click Start ⇒ Control Panel ⇒ Programs ⇒ Uninstall a Program
  2. Type javaws.exe -viewer.
  3. If you see the Replicator in the viewer, right click it and click delete.
  4. Delete any desktop Replicator icon.
  5. Delete any Replicator menu item.
  6. In Windows, start regedit.exe at the command prompt.
  7. In Windows, delete the registry tree HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\JavaSoft\Prefs\com\mindprod\replicator and HKEY_USERS\usernamexxx\Software\JavaSoft\Prefs\com\mindprod\replicator if it exists.
  8. In Linux, user preferences are usually stored in the file system in the /etc/.java directory in xml files. It will have a goofy name something like this:

    /home/user/.java/.userPrefs/com/mindprod/replicator/_!':!bw t!#4!b@p!'4!~!w!()!bwk!#4!cgl!(!!b!p!'}@"0!'8!cg==

    The contents of the file will look something like this:

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
    <!DOCTYPE map SYSTEM "http://java.sun.com/dtd/preferences.dtd">
    <map MAP_XML_VERSION="1.0">
      <entry key="LAN_ZIP_URL" value="http://mindprod.com/replicator"/>
      <entry key="PASSWORD" value=""/>
      <entry key="PREFS_EXIST" value="true"/>
      <entry key="RECEIVER_BASE_DIR" value="/home/Mindprod"/>
      <entry key="RECEIVER_ZIP_STAGING_DIR" value="/home/MPstaging"/>
      <entry key="USERID" value=""/>
    </map>
    Delete this file to get rid of the old settings.
You can then try a reinstall if you want.

Cost

James Seaboldt of smear.biz generously funded the development of the project. The Replicator is available to the public free.

What Is Included

What Is Not Included

Trouble Shooting

To get best performance from the Replicator, you should tweak/tune/configure/adjust your TCP/IP downloading. This will speed up all your Internet connections and downloads, not just the Replicator, perhaps by as much as 100 times. Try any or all of these tuning tools to see which works best for you: TCP Optimizer, TweakMaster or QuickDNS.

Beware. The Google web accelerator proxy drastically slows down Java Web start unless you configure jawaws.exe to use a direct network connection.

Java Web Start sometimes leaves obsolete icons on your desktop. To get rid of them, right click the desktop and click refresh. You can then fill in the holes with right click arrange icons ⇒ by name.

All files and directories the Replicator touches must not have leading or trailing spaces in their names. It is ok to have embedded spaces, even double spaces in names. If they have lead or trail spaces, the Replicator will abort telling you which file has to be renamed. It will pick up where it left off after you fix the problem and restart it.

Most problems getting started deploying for serving surround not configuring the replicator.properties file correctly. Check the system out by using the replicatorreceivertest.jnlp to download the zips and unpack them to a unique directory and make sure the files you wanted included are included and no more. You can adjust the replicator.properties to correct any errors and the Replicator will automatically adjust without having to start from scratch.

To start the server side over from scratch, run startover.bat. If that does not work, delete the *.ser files in the E:/com/mindprod/replicator directory and all the files in the SENDER_ZIP_STAGING_DIR.

To start the client side over from scratch, delete all the files in the staging directory.

Most problems seem to occur during the upload of the zip files, which is not under the direct control of the Replicator. Check that the files in the SENDER_ZIP_STAGING_DIR match the website in size and date. If you see mismatches, you can try deleting the offending files from the website manually, then retry the prepare. If you use Netload, doing local refresh and site refresh will often help get it back in sync. Try deleting any *.nlx files in the SENDER_ZIP_STAGING_DIR and any netload.chk files in the WEBSITE_ZIP_URL directory on the website.

If problems seem to be related to JET and its DLL (Dynamic Link Library) s, you can revert to the HotSpot version which is slightly slower. You just configure SET USE_JET=false in the PREPARE.BAT file.

To use the Replicator off net, you need to use the replicatorreceiverviarelay.jnlp to collect the zip files off the website and store them in a staging directory. You then have to copy those files to some place where they are accessible via a LAN, perhaps using a CD as an intermediary. You then fire up replicatorreceivervialan.jnlp from the same directory as the zips. If this directory is the same as the one you configured in replicator.properties SUGGESTED_LAN_ZIP_URL, it should work fine. However, if it is different, you will have to manually edit the codebase parameter in the replicatorreceivervialan.jnlp file to make it match.

The other way to use the Replicator off-net is to use replicatorreceiverviarelay.jnlp to download the zips from the website and burn everything in the staging directory onto the root of a CD. From there you can install the CD just by inserting it into a drive. You can use the CD to initially install the files and subsequent CDs to keep the files up to date. You can also use the web to keep the files up to date after an initial CD install. When you use replicatorreceivercd X.jnlp it will copy the files off CD it has not already got.

If you make a great many changes to your website, it is best to first upload those individual changes before running the replicator, rather than getting the upload phase of the replicator to upload those files and its own in the same batch. Large upload batches sometimes fail and need to be run several times. Netload need to be have its cached directory manually cleared after each failure.

Netload Tips

The Replicator is designed so that it never uploads or deletes a file than anyone could be downloading. This, in theory, means uploads should be trouble free. The problem comes if you piggyback other files on the same upload. Users downloading them can abort the upload run and the Replicator’s files don’t get uploaded. Eventually, when you rerun the Replicator, it sorts itself out, but in the meantime the Replicator can fail if it thinks various files have been uploaded that have not. So use Netload only for replicator files. Use something else for your ordinary uploads. You might try using Netload for both, but if there is any overlap in the files uploaded, the each copy will be puzzled by changes to the website the other did.

At some point I will have to write a replacement for Netload that is more robust and requires no tweaking.

Optional Features

There are features not yet present in the Replicator, but which would be a good idea.

Running Without Java Web Start

Java Web Start can be touchy to get working. First you can try launching with javaws.exe -viewer. If you don’t want to bother with Java Web Start at all, you can run the Replicator manually without it. You will have to download the replicator package. All you need is the replicator package. To run the Replicator receiver, at the command line type:

The Competition

FolderShare is a service similar to the Replicator. rsync is a Unix program similar to the Replicator.
the Replicator vs The Competition
  Replicator FolderShare rsync
Cost one time fee  $30.00 USD for unlimited files and unlimited computers. $6.75 USD per month per computer for up to 50,000 files. free
Platforms Runs on anything that supports Java, pretty well any desktop under the Sun. Installs with a single click Java Web Start. Windows application Unix, Windows. Different versions work on different platforms.
host Your HTTP server serves HTTP documents, but runs no special software. Thus even the simplest ISP can host the Replicator. The intelligence is completely in the clients. FolderShare’s proprietary server Unix host running the rsync server software.
protocols standard HTTP and FTP which can get though firewalls without special permission. The whole reason the Replicator was written was to make file sharing immune to firewall bureaucracy. Proprietary (needs special permission to tunnel TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) ports 443, 6571 and 8000 through firewalls). Also uses standard port 80. rsync protocol (needs special permission to tunnel TCP port 873 through firewalls)
compression yes yes yes via VPN
deltas sends only files that have changed. sends only parts of files that have changed. Sends only parts of files that have changed.
security custom configuration: passwords, PGP/AES encryption, certificate based IDs, flash drive based IDs AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) encryption, certificate based ids. SSH (Secure Shell) optional
coordination Each pool of files that are distributed to everyone has a single person in charge of controlling what goes into it and who has access to it. One person has write access, the rest read-only. Each folder has a list of people who are allowed to add or change files in it and who are allowed to look at the files in the folder. Each pool of files that are distributed to everyone has a single person in charge of controlling what goes into it. One person has write access, the rest read-only.
audience Initial install requires coaching, (included). File receivers can be technopeasants. Try it yourself. Aimed at casual users, rather than power users. techies
special features HTML compaction, untouching files to redate them when they have not really changed, automatic detection of changed files for distribution. automatically resumes failed downloads right where it left off. optionally preserves symbolic links, hard links, file ownership, permissions, devices and times
backup Your responsibility, or your ISP’s. Handled by FolderShare Your responsibility, or your ISP’s.

rsync

The traditional tool to replicate a tree of files is called rsync. It has sophisticated ways of sending only the parts of files that have changed, comparing files using rolling checksums. It can be used with secure (encrypted) rsh or ssh channels. Most of the time, it would be faster than the Replicator. rsync is available for most Unix and Windows platforms.

The catches are:

However, rsync can be used in conjunction with the Replicator to efficiently upload the replicator files and your web file to the website. Then you only need hassle with firewalls on that pair of machines, not on all your clients.

Futures

In future there are some features I would like to add to The Replicator:

Summary

The replicator has been in production since 2003-11 without problem distributing confidential files for the pharmaceutical industry and mirroring the mindprod.com website to a large variety of computers.
PackageVersionReleasedLicenceLanguageNotes 
replicator
The Replicator
11.6 2015-03-10 free Java
more infoprecismanualscreenshotbrowse source repository
for the current version of The Replicator.
Efficiently replicates a set of files to your clients and keeps them up-to-date.
download 2.5MB zip for The Replicator Java source, compiled class files, jar and documentation to run on your own machine as a Java Web Start application.

Runs on any OS that supports Java e.g. W2K, XP, W2003, Vista, W2008, W7-32, W7-64, W8-32, W8-64, W2012, W10-32, W10-64, Linux, LinuxARM, LinuxX86, LinuxX64, Ubuntu, Solaris, SolarisSPARC, SolarisSPARC64, SolarisX86, SolarisX64 and OSX.

First install the most recent Java.

To install, extract the zip download with WinZip, (or similar unzip utility) into any directory you please, often J:\ — ticking off the use folder names option.

To check out the corresponding source from the Subversion repository, use the TortoiseSVN repo-browser to
access replicator source in repository with [Tortoise] Subversion client on wush.net/svn/mindprod/com/mindprod/replicator/.

To run the JWS application, modify the jnlp file to look in the right place for its files, then type:

javaws J:\com\mindprod\replicator\replicator.jnlp

adjusting as necessary to account for where the jar file is.

download ASP PAD XML program description for the current version of The Replicator.

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FolderShare
other downloads
Preferences
rsync

This page is posted
on the web at:

http://mindprod.com/webstart/replicator.manual.html

Optional Replicator mirror
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