From owner-freebsd-hubs Thu Jan 11 12:28: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Received: from meow.osd.bsdi.com (meow.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 867FD37B400 for ; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 12:27:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (logo@localhost) by meow.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id f0BKQsp13310; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 12:26:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from logo@meow.osd.bsdi.com) Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 12:26:54 -0800 (PST) From: Valentino Vaschetto To: jason andrade Cc: Vincent Rivellino , Subject: Re: mirroring software In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I'd be happy to setup an rsync server on ftp3.freebsd.org, if there is no official one. -val On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, jason andrade wrote: > > > Actually we're mirroring straight from ftp.freebsd.org (aka > > freesoftware.com) because our server was (and will be again) > > ftp3.freebsd.org. It will be a full mirror once we finished re-syncing. > > > > We went ahead and used spegla because it's not dependent on perl (or any > > other scripting language), as we did a very barebones install on our > > server. > > > > However, thanks for the input. It was much appreciated. > > hmm, if you are doing that.. and you're doing a complete mirror, any > chance of you installing rsync on your server for us downstreams ? :-) > > it basically takes between a week to 10 days, *if* all goes well, to > mirror some of the package trees. it took a month once, because of > network problems. not too `real time'. i have long been considering > abandoning all other than "release" package trees to someone who has > the infinite time/money/bandwidth and/or is a much better mirroring > person than i am. > > > PS: Though I do wish there was an official rsync server. > > been asking for a while. to date, the answer is "no", and with no > tending towards infinity to "never". bitter ? me ? :-) > > i'll have to look at spegla.. i'm pretty happy with a current combination > of mirror.pl/rsync.. but i don't think mirror.pl has much development > nowadays. > > -jason > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message