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{{% notice note %}}
Note: check out the [tutorial]({{< relref "tutorial/_index.md" >}}) if you want a first impression of zrepl.
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## User Privileges
It is possible to run zrepl as an unprivileged user in combination with
[ZFS delegation](https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/zfs-zfs-allow.html).
Also, there is the possibility to run it in a jail on FreeBSD by delegating a dataset to the jail.
However, until we get around documenting those setups, you will have to run zrepl as root or experiment yourself :)
## Installation
zrepl is currently not packaged on any operating system. Signed & versioned releases are planned but not available yet.
Check out the sources yourself, compile and install to the zrepl user's `$PATH`.<br />
**Note**: if the zrepl binary is not in `$PATH`, you will have to adjust the examples in the [tutorial]({{< relref "tutorial/_index.md" >}}).
```bash
# NOTE: you may want to checkout & build as an unprivileged user
cd /root
git clone https://github.com/zrepl/zrepl.git
cd zrepl
go build -o zrepl
cp zrepl /usr/local/bin/zrepl
rehash
# see if it worked
zrepl help
```
## Configuration Files
zrepl searches for its main configuration file in the following locations (in that order):
* `/etc/zrepl/zrepl.yml`
* `/usr/local/etc/zrepl/zrepl.yml`
Copy a config from the [tutorial](/tutorial) or the `cmd/sampleconf` directory to one of these locations and customize it to your setup.
## Runtime Directories
For default settings, the following should to the trick.
Check out the [configuration documentation]({{< relref "configuration/misc.md#runtime-directories-unix-sockets" >}}) for more information.
```bash
mkdir -p /var/run/zrepl/stdinserver
chmod -R 0700 /var/run/zrepl
```
## Running the Daemon
All work zrepl done is performed by a daemon process.
There are no *rc(8)* or *systemd.service(5)* service definitions yet.
The daemon does not fork and writes all log output to stderr.
```bash
zrepl daemon
```
FreeBSD ships with the *daemon(8)* utility which is also a good start for writing an *rc(8)* file:
```bash
daemon -o /var/log/zrepl.log \
-p /var/run/zrepl/daemon.pid \
zrepl --config /usr/local/etc/zrepl/zrepl.yml daemon
```
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Make sure to read the first lines of log output after the daemon starts: if the daemon cannot create the [stdinserver]({{< relref "configuration/transports.md#stdinserver" >}}) sockets
in the runtime directory, it will complain but not terminate as other tasks such as taking periodic snapshots might still work and are equally important.
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### Restarting
The daemon handles SIGINT and SIGTERM for graceful shutdown.
Graceful shutdown means at worst that a job will not be rescheduled for the next interval.
The daemon exits as soon as all jobs have reported shut down.