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Sergey Matveychuk wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I'd like to make a new mirror of ftp.freebsd.org.
> 
> What method can you recomend me and what server? I've try rsync(1) from
> ftp13.freebsd.org. But still can't fetch a full files set. After a
> couple days I've stopped it because I should rebooted the server. After
> I've run it again and many distfiles refetched again. After a day I've
> accidently stopped rsync and rerun it. Now it's fetching distfiles
> again. Either I did something wrong or distfiles are freshed every day
> (amd64/packages-5-stable still unfetched completely).
> 
> I've read `Mirroring FreeBSD' document but I still don't undersand what
>  method is preferable?

I just switched from rsync to cvsup, because rsync gave me a lot of
timeouts, while cvsup is acting nicely. If you want to set up a mirror
using cvsup, all you have to do is install net/cvsup-mirror.