Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2002 17:45:42 +0800 From: "Ch Ild" <wearitdown@myrealbox.com> To: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Subject: intent to set up a mirror. Message-ID: <1024220742.5132aff5wearitdown@myrealbox.com>
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Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 13:33:34 +0800 (SGT)
From: pyng@spam.averse.net
To: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org
Subject: intent to set up a mirror
Hi. Hope this is the right place to ask these questions.
I'm considering setting up an ftp and/or cvsup mirror in Singapore. My intended machine has pretty good network connecitivity within singapore, and has decent connectivity to asian countries. sg.freebsd.org used to be hosted on an adsl connection, which is too slow, and currently does not even resolve.
Is there a requirement to mirror everything? I'm considering not mirroring the alpha ports, alpha images, gnats, mailing lists. I'm also considering dropping the older releases such as 2.2, 3.x, 4.[01234]. Is this advisable?
Does anyone have statistics on how much space these actually use, how many people still rely on them? Would be best if these statistics have an asian slant - my impression is that freebsd on the alpha doesn't have a high take-up rate here.
If I wish to allocate, say, 30GB or 40GB of disk space to my freebsd mirror, which areas would I best serve users by mirroring?
Lastly, can someone give me tips on exactly how to do the mirroring while excluding the stuff I don't want? I haven't been able to find anonymous cvsup access to the ftp archive, so I'm falling back onto using rsync. This is my command line, but it still ends up retrieving all the alpha, etc, files and directories that I don't want:
rsync --recursive --links --hard-links --times --verbose --compress \
--delete --exclude "Archive-Update-in-Progress-mirror.averse.net" \
--exclude-from=/home/cvsupin/bin/mirror-freebsd-ftp.exclude \
planetmirror.com::freebsd /home/mirrors/ftp_root/pub/FreeBSD
where /home/cvsupin/bin/mirror-freebsd-ftp.exclude is:
alpha/
releases/**/2*/
releases/**/3*/
releases/**/4.0*/
releases/**/4.1*/
releases/**/4.2*/
releases/**/4.3*/
releases/**/ISO-IMAGES/2.2*/
releases/**/ISO-IMAGES/3.4*/
releases/**/ISO-IMAGES/3.5*/
releases/**/ISO-IMAGES/4.0*/
releases/**/ISO-IMAGES/4.1*/
releases/**/ISO-IMAGES/4.2*/
releases/**/ISO-IMAGES/4.3*/
releases/**/ISO-IMAGES/4.4*/
doc/de*/
doc/el*/
doc/es*/
doc/fr*/
doc/it*/
doc/ja*/
doc/ru*/
doc/sr*/
ports/i386/packages-2.2-stable/
ports/i386/packages-3-stable/
I have also tried to do my rsync from ftp4.de with the same results (alpha
packages get pulled across) so there's probably something wrong with my
excludes somewhere.
Regards,
Pui Yong
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