Hi
I just finished setting up the minute-replicate diff import. It's running on willow because ptolemy can't connect to planet.osm.org.
You can monitor the state of the import process by calling
/home/project/o/s/m/osm/bin/replag -h
Currently it's 9 day(s) and 5 hour(s) behind the main database.
I'm not sure how the default mod_tile expiring rules are. As we're not actively expiring tiles as part of our update process, it'll depend on them when new features will appear on the map.
Peter