Hi, I have one machine running BOINC participating in several projects. Works fine. Simple Q but I couldn't exactly find the answer.

If I install Boinc on a second physical machine, is there a set of files I can simply copy across so it also works on the same projects. I'm running the machines headless from CLI, so simply copying a few xml files would be great, if that's all that's needed

thanks

Hi, I have one machine running BOINC participating in several projects. Works fine. Simple Q but I couldn't exactly find the answer.

If I install Boinc on a second physical machine, is there a set of files I can simply copy across so it also works on the same projects. I'm running the machines headless from CLI, so simply copying a few xml files would be great, if that's all that's needed

thanks

The main two are cc_config.xml and app_config.xml in the project directory.

The app file will not exist if you’ve not created it and the cc file won’t exist if you’ve not set non-default settings.

The file controlling which projects you added and all is client_state.xml, you can copy this file to another computer and that computer will then immediately have the projects added that the first computer has.

The file controlling which projects you added and all is client_state.xml, you can copy this file to another computer and that computer will then immediately have the projects added that the first computer has.

Not a good idea. client_state.xml also contains Host IDs and RPC sequence numbers: duplicating them will trigger BOINC's anti-cheating mechanisms.

Isn't that only of concern with exactly the same hardware?