Reconnecting Peers Periodically

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Peers have a tendency to disconnect from each other if not reconnected manually periodically, so to combat this, you may add the following two files to periodically reconnect to your swarm peers.
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sudo su -
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cat <<EOF > /lib/systemd/system/gateway-connector.service
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[Unit]
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Description=Job that periodically connects this IPFS node to the gateway node
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[Service]
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ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/ipfs swarm connect <ADD_MULTIPLE_CONNECTIONS_HERE_SPACE_SEPARATED> # /ip4/52.70.167.190/tcp/4001/ipfs/QmZ5gLTZwvfD5DkbbaFFX4YJCi7f4C5oQAgq8qpjL8S1ur /ip4/34.224.152.33/tcp/4001/ipfs/QmcCX4b3EF3eXaDe5dgxTL9mXbyci4FwcJAjWqpub5vCXM
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Environment="IPFS_PATH=/root/.ipfs"
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EOF
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exit
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sudo su -
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cat <<EOF > /lib/systemd/system/gateway-connector.timer
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[Unit]
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Description=Timer that periodically triggers gateway-connector.service
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[Timer]
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OnBootSec=3min
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OnUnitActiveSec=1min
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[Install]
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WantedBy=timers.target
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EOF
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exit
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Now you can enable and start the service:
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sudo systemctl enable gateway-connector.timer
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sudo systemctl start gateway-connector.timer
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To double checked this worked, run:
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systemctl list-timers
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You should see an entry for your gateway connector service. You can also check the status of its last execution attempt by running:
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systemctl status gateway-connector
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Finally you can monitor the process with:
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journalctl -f | grep ipfs
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