Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2014 11:55:09 -0700 From: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> To: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: people running www.freebsd.org mirrors! Switch from cvsup to rsync please. Message-ID: <2425762.UjGoRx1lV6@overcee.wemm.org> In-Reply-To: <53813134.7090901@wemm.org> References: <53813134.7090901@wemm.org>
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--nextPart2033904.HdhyrUyoDL Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" On Saturday 24 May 2014 16:54:28 Peter Wemm wrote: > If you are running a www mirror that is being updated via cvsup, *ple= ase > stop* and switch to rsync. [..] > To switch, please use something like this: >=20 > $ rsync -aHz --delete rsync://bit0.us-west.freebsd.org/FreeBSD-www-da= ta/ > /home/mirror/www-data/ >=20 > of note, -H for tracking hard links, and --delete to clean up old > files. Don't run rsync as root, etc etc. >=20 >=20 > However I would like to make a plea here. Please take a peek at your > server's traffic logs to check that it makes sense to keep the mirror= > going and that it's not just bots. I'm aware that people run them fo= r a > variety of reasons (anything from language variants to local content = to > improving latency to participating in the community etc), but please > don't feel obligated to keep running one if there is no longer a > reason. A neglected mirror is far worse than no mirror. >=20 > Even worse, we risk being penalized in search engines for duplicated > content because it looks like spam to certain algorithms. >=20 > If it's time to stop, contact the hostmaster for your zone and have t= he > dns and mirror lists updated. Please don't let them go to dead air. *bump* =2D-=20 Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; KI= 6FJV UTF-8: for when a ' just won\342\200\231t do\342\200\246 --nextPart2033904.HdhyrUyoDL Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (FreeBSD) iQEcBAABAgAGBQJTkg6TAAoJEDXWlwnsgJ4EPmoIANht5eAo7Eq94XP+IMqMhv5g uuxDBLqFiC2Bsmnv4MfGGQoSSKej0+iQaCdMB1Akc6oCbM+78SCEFo/v6T8YuV1b wY1+eUpMedyBbjqq7U7RFgR4gY+NvQqP3+6aMKP6LAMM28WZcGuTGyZjFq6CZEPy n5aTjgkqoIvgGePDh6YwUt7u20yB1FLTRYlieF9nmdz03MWCpEK3iuCWqXXAwKXB A24o9AipygzlPWCWvRprSRkZz0AVTG5R3LmxmhQ+MjjuFGRMa+DYTkVbo6YoElgb uv6+nIQdMoOYGAqtJULyPkUPQx3VIAo3FTLO1VAfzDoSij8jSwJxQY23W2b8sJ0= =zn4l -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2033904.HdhyrUyoDL--
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