Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 17:05:29 -0500 (EST) From: Brian Poole <raj@cerias.purdue.edu> To: <hubs@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: mirroring software Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.30.0101101701071.25634-100000@basm.cerias.purdue.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.4.20.0101110755330.13610-100000@azure.dstc.edu.au>
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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. Running a full mirror here (ftp9/ftp.cerias.purdue.edu) as well. > > 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. Spegla appears to be a reasonable choice, works well enough for me. > 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 ? :-) I've been considering setting up a rsync server here, if ftp3 doesn't want to I would consider setting one up for limited access here. > 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. To be truthful spegla is immensely better at mirroring large sites than mirror.pl. mirror.pl is slow and a big fat resource hog. I would recommend you take a close look at it for mirroring FreeBSD. -b To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message
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