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Date:      Wed, 03 Oct 2001 14:37:35 -0700
From:      Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com>
To:        Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz>
Cc:        "Aaron D.Gifford" <agifford@infowest.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: CVS mirror heirarchy questions
Message-ID:  <3BBB851F.393886B5@owt.com>
References:  <20011003173748.86D36216F3@ns1.infowest.com> <20011004091153.D97814@jonc.itouch>

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Jonathan Chen wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 11:37:45AM -0600, Aaron D.Gifford wrote:
> 
> [...]
> > What about adding a new tier to the CVS mirroring heirarchy?  A new layer
> > of mirrors would be useful that do not contact the master repository, but
> > instead synchronize from a tier-1 mirror.  This would permit ISPs, large
> > organizations, colleges, schools, etc. to operate an "internal only" CVS
> > repository from which all machines in the organization's domain could
> > synchronize sources (cvsup) without adding additional burden to the
> > tier-1 mirrors except for the organization's single mirror machine.
> >
> > Is this possible?
> 
> Here's a nice article on how to set up a local mirror:
> 
>     http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2001/08/30/Big_Scary_Daemons.html
> 
> Hope this helps.

I have 5 computers running FreeBSD. When I did this 3 weeks ago, it made
all of the updates run faster. A 100mbs network will always be a DSL
line. I did setup a script to run it in between cron jobs. All of this
combined to give me a window where I could cvsup all of system to the
same code.

Kent

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