# Discourse slave instance with offline access

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-slave-instance-with-offline-access/104052>\
**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Created:** [December 11, 2018, 10:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-slave-instance-with-offline-access/104052 "2018-12-11T22:07:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2018, 11:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-slave-instance-with-offline-access/104052/2 "2018-12-11T23:59:55Z")

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Hello from a fellow Australian Rubyist… 👋

This all sounds fine to me. To sync stuff up after the event I would recommend writing a small script that zooms through your read write categories and then makes API requests using our JSON API to create the topics / posts on the master.

I definitely recommend strongly against having any kind of merge topic scenario, it will be full of dragons and not worth the effort.

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