From owner-freebsd-hubs Wed Jan 10 14: 5:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Received: from basm.cerias.purdue.edu (basm.cerias.purdue.edu [128.10.243.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F5AB37B69D for ; Wed, 10 Jan 2001 14:05:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (raj@localhost) by basm.cerias.purdue.edu (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA09455 for ; Wed, 10 Jan 2001 17:05:29 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 17:05:29 -0500 (EST) From: Brian Poole To: Subject: Re: mirroring software In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, jason andrade wrote: > > > Actually we're mirroring straight from ftp.freebsd.org (aka > > freesoftware.com) because our server was (and will be again) > > ftp3.freebsd.org. It will be a full mirror once we finished re-syncing. Running a full mirror here (ftp9/ftp.cerias.purdue.edu) as well. > > We went ahead and used spegla because it's not dependent on perl (or any > > other scripting language), as we did a very barebones install on our > > server. Spegla appears to be a reasonable choice, works well enough for me. > hmm, if you are doing that.. and you're doing a complete mirror, any > chance of you installing rsync on your server for us downstreams ? :-) I've been considering setting up a rsync server here, if ftp3 doesn't want to I would consider setting one up for limited access here. > it basically takes between a week to 10 days, *if* all goes well, to > mirror some of the package trees. it took a month once, because of > network problems. not too `real time'. i have long been considering > abandoning all other than "release" package trees to someone who has > the infinite time/money/bandwidth and/or is a much better mirroring > person than i am. > > > PS: Though I do wish there was an official rsync server. > > been asking for a while. to date, the answer is "no", and with no > tending towards infinity to "never". bitter ? me ? :-) > > i'll have to look at spegla.. i'm pretty happy with a current combination > of mirror.pl/rsync.. but i don't think mirror.pl has much development > nowadays. To be truthful spegla is immensely better at mirroring large sites than mirror.pl. mirror.pl is slow and a big fat resource hog. I would recommend you take a close look at it for mirroring FreeBSD. -b To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message