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Date:      Thu, 11 Jan 2001 12:26:54 -0800 (PST)
From:      Valentino Vaschetto <logo@meow.osd.bsdi.com>
To:        jason andrade <jason@dstc.edu.au>
Cc:        Vincent Rivellino <vrivelli@cslab.vt.edu>, <hubs@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: mirroring software
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.31.0101111226180.13238-100000@meow.osd.bsdi.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.4.20.0101110755330.13610-100000@azure.dstc.edu.au>

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I'd be happy to setup an rsync server on ftp3.freebsd.org, if there is no
official one.

-val



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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > However, thanks for the input.  It was much appreciated.
>
> 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 ? :-)
>
> 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.
>
> -jason
>
>
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