Remote part of a simple ipfs replication solution. To be executed by a cronjob

ipfs_sync_remote.sh

#/bin/bash

set -e
set -u

# that's where my ipfs executable currently lives
PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin/

LOCAL_PINS_FILE="$HOME/.ipfs/pinned.list"

# update local list
ipfs pin ls -q --type=recursive > $LOCAL_PINS_FILE

# lists of remote files/hashes are expected in files with name pattern <hostname>.pinned.list
for list in $HOME/.ipfs/*.pinned.list; do
        echo "checking $list"

        for p in `cat $list`; do 
                if ! grep -q $p $LOCAL_PINS_FILE; then
                        echo "adding $p"
                        ipfs pin add $p;
                fi
        done
done