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remark about replication
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1 .. highlight:: bash
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2 .. _replication:
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4 Replication and upgrade
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5 =======================
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7 This page explains how to replicate the content of one instance of
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8 Orthanc to another instance of Orthanc. This is useful to **upgrade**
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9 between :ref:`versions of the database schema <db-versioning>`, or to
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10 create **mirrored DICOM servers**.
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12 Note that if you only want to automatically upgrade the database for
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13 successive versions of Orthanc, you most probably only have to add the
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14 ``--upgrade`` command-line option while starting Orthanc.
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17 Direct access to the filesystem
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20 The most direct way to replicate consists in using the
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21 `ImportDicomFiles
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22 <https://bitbucket.org/sjodogne/orthanc/src/default/Resources/Samples/ImportDicomFiles/ImportDicomFiles.py>`_
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23 script of the Orthanc distribution. For instance, the following
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24 command would recursively explore the content of the ``OrthancStorage``
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25 folder (where Orthanc stores its DICOM files by default), and send
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26 each DICOM file inside this folder to the instance of Orthanc whose
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27 REST API is listening on ``http://192.168.0.2:8042``::
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29 $ python ImportDicomFiles.py 192.168.0.2 8042 OrthancStorage
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31 This method will only succeed if:
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33 * The source Orthanc uses the default SQLite back-end of Orthanc (and
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34 not the `PostgreSQL plugin
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35 <http://www.orthanc-server.com/static.php?page=postgresql>`_, for
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36 instance),
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37 * You have command-line access to the source Orthanc, and
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38 * The transparent :ref:`compression` of the DICOM instances is
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39 disabled (cf. option ``StorageCompression`` in the
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40 :ref:`configuration file <configuration>`).
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42 **Important remark:** Because of :ref:`the way Orthanc stores its
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43 database <orthanc-storage>` on the filesystem, it is *entirely normal*
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44 that the ``ImportDicomFiles.py`` script ends by saying that only half
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45 of the DICOM files were properly sent. This is because the JSON
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46 summaries are not DICOM files, and are thus rejected by the target
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47 Orthanc server. More information are available `on the discussion
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49 <https://groups.google.com/d/msg/orthanc-users/Zlhtcpo76qQ/tp8EqaRCAQAJ>`__.
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52 Generic replication
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53 -------------------
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55 If you cannot use the first method, you can use the `Replicate
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56 <https://bitbucket.org/sjodogne/orthanc/src/default/Resources/Samples/Python/Replicate.py>`_
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57 script of the Orthanc distribution. This script will use the REST API
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58 of both the source and target instances of Orthanc. For instance::
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60 $ python Replicate.py http://orthanc:password@localhost:8042/ http://192.168.0.2/
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62 Obviously, contrarily to the first method, the source instance of
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63 Orthanc must be up and running during the replication.