From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 5 02:49:21 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9EC2106564A for ; Sat, 5 Apr 2008 02:49:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scphantm@gmail.com) Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com (wr-out-0506.google.com [64.233.184.224]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96FFE8FC0C for ; Sat, 5 Apr 2008 02:49:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scphantm@gmail.com) Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id 50so347142wra.13 for ; Fri, 04 Apr 2008 19:49:21 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type; bh=f12WzDTRFK6PKffhzE1qRi3SLsMIF5GF/zE/ZhI6Zo8=; b=Q04bA81VvVi7GTsaDMzmVrU3Lt7xOKDwbCI08tsJ4vhmCcDMuuFqoHZufeIEIy75KClkXkz8v9yGH6WK8s5vceTZSDIaXH+2ASAzabWmzGIvEOmwQgKhyeA2QGRYebr52FrvbhjcB6D384/i7trpA0c6z7xTrr9Gtb138LHUr8I= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type; b=u3b7wPSJOdkZ2YwmfaU1+XUVLZ9PyAY6Fj1DVQi8CZYFA7n+7GemQsBimvhwKKUCgnglDGy2hYMrcSNufXUbtxBPR19QLt0xjc3DGqTvVOc92HSdBR2dF9KEp0osq5SnL+kfPxrbLyPyrO9mcdRNKkobo7/5H8T/+jmXV0U1LW8= Received: by 10.114.151.13 with SMTP id y13mr3098786wad.145.1207362204797; Fri, 04 Apr 2008 19:23:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.115.49.10 with HTTP; Fri, 4 Apr 2008 19:23:24 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5c99941f0804041923t1e6e9cdbue40e782805fa34f6@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 22:23:24 -0400 From: "Steel City Phantom" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: building a distribution server X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2008 02:49:21 -0000 i have about 10 production servers that i want to upgrade to bsd 7 and update all their ports in one shot. the problem is the down time. im wrapping up upgrading a 6.3 to 7 and its taken over 7 hours so far. thats way too long for our machines to be down. the biggest slow down is the downloading of files. just sitting watching things i would say 70% of the time is downloading files. is there a way where i can build a distribution server that has everything i could possibly need to upgrade a machine from any 6.x to 7.0 and redo all the ports on that machine and have a cron job keep everything up to date on that server and when i upgrade a new machine, it simply goes to my internal distribution server to get the files.