Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:29:10 +0100 From: Christiaan Keet <keet@plig.net> To: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Cc: Dr Josef Karthauser <joe@tao.org.uk>, 'Vince Hoffman' <vince@unsane.co.uk> Subject: Re: ftp.uk.freebsd.org doesnt have FreeBSD mirrored Message-ID: <20080930162910.GA88222@riffraff.plig.net> In-Reply-To: <022901c8bc5e$a0fc5be0$e2f513a0$@org.uk> References: <4833DD73.2050305@unsane.co.uk> <022901c8bc5e$a0fc5be0$e2f513a0$@org.uk>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 11:53:16PM +0100, Dr Josef Karthauser wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: owner-freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- > > hubs@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Vince Hoffman > > Sent: 21 May 2008 09:30 > > To: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org > > Subject: ftp.uk.freebsd.org doesnt have FreeBSD mirrored > > > > Hi, > > I sent this to the uk freebsd users group originally a few days ago as > > they had been discussing changing the cvsup mirror order, but had no > > response, thus the email here. > > > > ftp.uk.freebsd.org No longer seems to mirror freebsd (see ftp > > transcipt > > below.) It might be worth (possibly temporarily) promoting one of the > > other uk mirrors) > > Thanks for the feedback. The plig server suffered major disk failure, and > the admin told me that it was now back on-line. I'll poke him about the ftp > mirror. So we built a new mirror server, which promptly ran out of disk space available on its 2TB array. Seems I underestimated things slightly :) The new-new ftp.uk.freebsd.org is now up and running and happily updating itself with 5TB of free space remaining - about 3/4 of the way through the rebuild of its data. I trust that will hold for a while. Any pointers as to how we can regain rsync access[1] to a master site please? Emails to ftp-master@freebsd.org[2] on 6, 29 July and 29 Sept have so far gone unanswered. - CK [1] That's the contact address you get from the banner when doing rsync rsync://ftp-master.freebsd.org/ [2] I know the banner asks to use cvsup instead, but seriously - I had it running for days on end and it didn't get very far. Suggesting that rsync really is still preferable for main mirrors[3] [3] Once we have rsync access restored, I'm more than happy for people to mirror off us as well. We'll be a full mirror again, updating daily and bandwdth is cheap :)
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20080930162910.GA88222>