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2navhome: /docs
2navhome: /docs
5−title: Basic operation
5+title: Basic Administration and Operation
8−# Basic operation
8+# Basic Administration
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11<div class="col-md-8">
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@@ -36,6 +36,16 @@ To log Urbit's command line output to a file, use `script`:
37 $ script urbit.log bin/urbit your-urbit
37 $ script urbit.log bin/urbit your-urbit
41+Piers are designed to be portable, but it *must* be done while the Urbit is turned off. Urbit networking is stateful, so you can't run two copies of the same Urbit in two places.
43+To move a pier, simply move the contents of the directory it lives in. To keep these files as small as possible we usually use the `--sparse` option in `tar`. With a pier `your-urbit/` something like this (from inside `urbit/`) should work:
45+ tar -Scvzf your-urbit.tar.gz ./your-urbit/
41Your Urbit terminal is separated into two parts: the prompt (the bottom line) and the record (everything above that). The record is shared; all the output from all the apps in your command set appears in it. The prompt is multiplexed.
51Your Urbit terminal is separated into two parts: the prompt (the bottom line) and the record (everything above that). The record is shared; all the output from all the apps in your command set appears in it. The prompt is multiplexed.
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90Moons are automatically synced to their parent `%kids` desk, and can control applications on their parent planet using `|link`. You can read more about those things in the [filesystem](/docs/using/filesystem) and [console](/docs/using/shell) walkthroughs.
100Moons are automatically synced to their parent `%kids` desk, and can control applications on their parent planet using `|link`. You can read more about those things in the [filesystem](/docs/using/filesystem) and [console](/docs/using/shell) walkthroughs.
94−Piers are designed to be portable, but it *must* be done while the Urbit is turned off. Urbit networking is stateful, so you can't run two copies of the same Urbit in two places.
96−To move a pier, simply move the contents of the directory it lives in. To keep these files as small as possible we usually use the `--sparse` option in `tar`. With a pier `your-urbit/` something like this (from inside `urbit/`) should work:
98− tar -Scvzf your-urbit.tar.gz ./your-urbit/
100## Continuity breaches
102## Continuity breaches
102While the Urbit network is in this alpha state we sometimes have to reboot the whole network. This happens either when major changes need to be shipped or we hit a bug that can't be fixed over the air.
104While the Urbit network is in this alpha state we sometimes have to reboot the whole network. This happens either when major changes need to be shipped or we hit a bug that can't be fixed over the air.