Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 12:09:07 +0100 From: Aris Stathakis <aris@sco.COM> To: Aaron Namba <aaron@namba1.com>, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how do i create a local ftp mirror site to make installs faster? Message-ID: <3B2749D3.99989536@sco.com> References: <NEBBKJCBCMINPHLGKLHDOEFPHCAA.aaron@namba1.com>
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Aaron Namba wrote: > > Hi, I reinstall FreeBSD quite regularly and downloading at a leisurely > 200-250K/s slows down my installs and is an unnecessary waste of bandwidth. > How can I easily create a mirror of ftp.freebsd.org/pub? The multitude of > links make things easier for the everyday user but much trickier for me as I > try to mirror the site. I'd tar it but unfortunately I don't have a shell > account on the machine... > The original 'mirror' program : http://sunsite.org.uk/packages/mirror/ It has worked well for me - written in perl, and will mirror any remote host via FTP making sure not to duplicate files you already have - it can check the timestmp, size, and many other things. Quite confiugrable too. Aris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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