From 2857773553544d7da2860bee7d8e3d88a2ecad6f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matt Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 17:58:44 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] More readme instructions for redudant daemon setup --- README.md | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 8bb49a5..61b669e 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -136,7 +136,11 @@ var pool = Stratum.createPool({ /* Recommended to have at least two daemon instances running in case one drops out-of-sync or offline. For redundancy, all instances will be polled for block/transaction updates - and be used for submitting blocks. */ + and be used for submitting blocks. Creating a backup daemon involves spawning a daemon + using the "-datadir=/backup" argument which creates a new daemon instance with it's own + RPC config. For more info on this see: + - https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Data_directory + - https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Running_bitcoind */ "daemons": [ { //Main daemon instance "host": "localhost",