Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1998 21:20:46 +1000 (EST) From: Warren Toomey <wkt@henry.cs.adfa.oz.au> To: ulf@alameda.net Cc: aneks@kom.auc.dk, www@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mirroring FreeBSD www pages using rsync. Message-ID: <199807171120.VAA00555@henry.cs.adfa.oz.au> In-Reply-To: <19980717012407.A1863@Alameda.net> from Ulf Zimmermann at "Jul 17, 98 01:24:07 am"
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In article by Ulf Zimmermann: > On Fri, Jul 17, 1998 at 09:28:37AM +0200, Arne Norre Ekstroem wrote: > > Hi, > > > > At http://www.freebsd.org/mirror.html you recommend using rsync for > > mirroring your web pages. It seem that the version of rsync you use is > > not compatible with 2.0 and newer. Is this true??? Would it be > > possible for you to start using a newer version of rsync??? I made the modifications to rsync 1.7.4 to allow us to use it for `anonymous' rsync use. Since then, Andrew Tridgell has installed his own changes to rsync which adds this functionality. He has promised a `caching' mode, where the server caches checksums, rather then recalculate them each time a client connects. I have been hanging off from suggesting that we switch to Andrew's new versions, because I hoped this caching would be implemented soon. However, it seems a while off. So perhaps it's time for us to switch up to the newer versions of rsync, and then once again (on the server side only) when support for caching arrives. My 1.7.4 hack to rsync runs off port 1810, from memory. The official rsync daemon port (approved by IANA) is another number. So we could run both in parallel, and phase out the 1.7.4 versions. Ulf, and all the other people who look after thr primary site, what do you think? I'm happy to help out with advice etc. Cheers, Warren
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