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Date:      Wed, 18 Jul 2001 12:26:26 +1000 (EST)
From:      jason andrade <jason@dstc.edu.au>
To:        "Christopher Allen [BigFatPipe.Net]" <cra@bigfatpipe.net>
Cc:        hubs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Mirror Creation
Message-ID:  <Pine.OSF.4.20.0107181225090.17067-100000@azure.dstc.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0107162357430.66885-100000@silicone.bigfatpipe.net>

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On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, Christopher Allen [BigFatPipe.Net] wrote:

> 
> Greetings.  We're interested in putting a FreeBSD mirror on our system,
> but I'm not finding any documentation on the FreeBSD site about that.

there's not a lot of doco about it yet.

> Do you have a preferred method over mirror/etc. scripts (hopefully rsync
> or cvsup)? And if so, can you give me quick specs or point me to a URL
> with the necessary configuration info?

rsync is the preferred method, combined with cvsup for the source trees.

you need about 50G of disk currently - preferably 75G for the next 12 months
if some of the release dates hold true.

> Thanks in advance.  Our 100BaseT connection to triple OC48s awaits your
> reply.  ;)

it's not the bandwidth anymore, except at peak times (releases).. it's the
amount of disk needed to keep up..

-jason


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