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 > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message
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