Update awscli every time we run the script, otherwise Python will break randomly.

README.md

@@ -17,12 +17,10 @@ List of available parameters:
 
 ## License
 
-Skynet uses a custom [License](./LICENSE.md). The Skynet License is a source
-code license that allows you to use, modify and distribute the software, but
-you must preserve the payment mechanism in the software.
+Skynet uses a custom [License](./LICENSE.md). The Skynet License is a source code license that allows you to use, modify
+and distribute the software, but you must preserve the payment mechanism in the software.
 
-For the purposes of complying with our code license, you can use the
-following Siacoin address:
+For the purposes of complying with our code license, you can use the following Siacoin address:
 
 `fb6c9320bc7e01fbb9cd8d8c3caaa371386928793c736837832e634aaaa484650a3177d6714a`
 
@@ -40,8 +38,9 @@ Mongo needs a couple of extra steps in order to start a secure cluster.
 - During the initialisation run mentioned above, we need to make two extra steps within the container:
     - Change the ownership of `mgkey` to `mongodb:mongodb`
     - Change its permissions to 400
-- After these steps are done we can open a mongo shell on the master node and run `rs.add()` in order to add the new
-  node to the cluster.
+- After these steps are done we can open a mongo shell on the primary node and run `rs.add()` in order to add the new
+  node to the cluster. If you don't know which node is primary, log onto any server and jump into the Mongo's container
+  (`docker exec -it mongo mongo -u admin -p`) and then get the status of the replica set (`rs.status()`).
 
 Example initialisation docker run command:
 
@@ -167,6 +166,9 @@ Steps:
 
 #### Configure your CockroachDB node
 
+Open port 26257 on all nodes that will take part in the cluster. Ideally, you would only open the port for the other
+nodes in the cluster.
+
 There is some configuration that needs to be added to your `.env`file, namely:
 
 1. CR_IP - the public IP of your node

scripts/db_backup.sh

@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
-echo "\n\n`date +"%Y-%m-%d-%H%M"` Starting a DB backup.\n"
+echo "`date +"%Y-%m-%d-%H%M"` Starting a DB backup."
+
+# First of all, let's pamper awscli because Python is so special:
+pip3 install --upgrade awscli
 
 # Get current script directory (pwd doesn't cut it)
 csd=$(cd -P -- "$(dirname -- "$0")" && pwd -P)

setup-scripts/README.md

@@ -30,14 +30,14 @@ You may want to fork this repository and replace ssh keys in
 ### Step 1: setting up server user
 
 1. SSH in a freshly installed Debian machine on a user with sudo access (can be root)
-1. `apt-get update && apt-get install sudo -y` to make sure `sudo` is available
+1. `apt-get update && apt-get install sudo libnss3-tools -y` to make sure `sudo` is available
 1. `adduser user` to create user called `user` (creates `/home/user` directory)
 1. `usermod -aG sudo user` to add this new user to sudo group
 1. `sudo groupadd docker` to create a group for docker (it might already exist)
 1. `sudo usermod -aG docker user` to add your user to that group
 1. Quit the ssh session with `exit` command
 
-You a can now ssh into your machine as the user `user`.
+You can now ssh into your machine as the user `user`.
 
 ### Step 2: setting up environment
 
@@ -59,11 +59,11 @@ You a can now ssh into your machine as the user `user`.
 
 At this point we have almost everything running, we just need to set up your wallet and allowance:
 
-1. Create new wallet (remember to save the seeds)
+1. Create a new wallet (remember to save the seed)
    > `docker exec -it sia siac wallet init`
-1. Unlock wallet (use seed as password)
+1. Unlock the wallet (use the seed as password)
    > `docker exec -it sia siac wallet unlock`
-1. Generate wallet addresse (save them for later to transfer the funds)
+1. Generate a new wallet address (save it for later to transfer the funds)
    > `docker exec -it sia siac wallet address`
 1. Set up allowance
    > `docker exec -it sia siac renter setallowance`
@@ -75,6 +75,8 @@ At this point we have almost everything running, we just need to set up your wal
    1. 500 GB expected upload
    1. 5 TB expected download
    1. default redundancy
+1. Set a maximum storage price
+   > `docker exec -it sia siac renter setallowance --max-storage-price 100SC`
 1. Instruct siad to start making 10 contracts per block with many hosts to potentially view the whole network's files
    > `docker exec -it sia siac renter setallowance --payment-contract-initial-funding 10SC`