close; git annex sync --content basically covers this use case

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Joey Hess 2014-03-18 15:42:44 -04:00
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@ -10,3 +10,13 @@ There might be the need to have a 'replication_priority' option for each remote
* maxspace - A self imposed quota per remote machine. git-annex replicate should try to replicate files first to machines with more free space. maxspace would change the free space calculation to be `min(actual_free_space, maxspace - space_used_by_git_annex)
* bandwidth - when replication files, copies should be done between machines with the highest available bandwidth. ( I think this option could be useful for git-annex get in general)
> `git annex sync --content` handles this now. [[done]]
>
> You do need to run it, or the assistant, on each node that needs
> to copy files to spread them through the network.
>
> A `git annex rebalance`
> is essentially the same as sshing to the remote and running `git annex
> sync --content` there. Assuming the remote repository itself has enough
> remotes set up that git-annex is able to copy files around. --[[Joey]]