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Linux migration

The Linux server does not need Obsidian Desktop. The deployable system is the markdown vault, archived sources, metadata, SQLite file index, QMD collections, and the obsidian-wiki CLI code.

Build a bundle on the source machine

cd /path/to/obsidian-wiki
scripts/package-linux-migration.sh \
  --vault "/path/to/vault" \
  --out ./dist

The script creates:

dist/obsidian-wiki-linux-<UTC>.tar.gz
dist/obsidian-wiki-linux-<UTC>.tar.gz.sha256

Copy the archive to the server:

scp dist/obsidian-wiki-linux-*.tar.gz user@server:/tmp/

Deploy on Linux

ssh user@server
cd /tmp
tar -xzf obsidian-wiki-linux-*.tar.gz
cd obsidian-wiki-linux-*

sudo bash deploy-linux-server.sh \
  --install-dir /opt/obsidian-wiki \
  --vault-dir /srv/bjd-vault \
  --bot-view-dir /srv/bjd-bot-views

For a non-root deployment:

bash deploy-linux-server.sh \
  --install-dir "$HOME/obsidian-wiki" \
  --vault-dir "$HOME/bjd-vault" \
  --bot-view-dir "$HOME/bjd-bot-views"

What deployment does

  • Copies the repo to --install-dir.
  • Copies the mother vault to --vault-dir.
  • Writes .env and ~/.obsidian-wiki/config with Linux paths.
  • Rebuilds _meta/file-assets.sqlite.
  • Audits bot ACLs.
  • Exports all configured bot views.
  • Creates QMD collections if qmd is installed.

Robot isolation

Robots should not index the mother vault directly. Use derived bot-view directories or their matching QMD collections:

/srv/bjd-bot-views/public-product-bot/wiki
/srv/bjd-bot-views/sales-bot/wiki
/srv/bjd-bot-views/quality-bot/wiki
/srv/bjd-bot-views/quality-bot/sources

QMD collections are named:

bjd-wiki
bjd-wiki-public-product-bot
bjd-wiki-sales-bot
bjd-wiki-quality-bot
bjd-wiki-engineering-bot
bjd-wiki-management-bot