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Date:      Thu, 30 Mar 2000 13:20:13 -0500 (EST)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Jesper Skriver <jesper@skriver.dk>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.org, Lloyd Rennie <lloyd@vbc.net>, Patrick Gardella <patrick@whetstonelogic.com>
Subject:   Re: Mirror requirements
Message-ID:  <200003301820.NAA91182@server.baldwin.cx>
In-Reply-To: <20000330171143.A48758@skriver.dk>

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On 30-Mar-00 Jesper Skriver wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 09:42:42AM -0500, Patrick Gardella wrote:
>> Lloyd Rennie wrote:
>> > 
>> > I sent this to -questions, but have received no reply.  Sorry to bug
>> > y'all, but...
>> > 
>> > What are the hardware and bandwidth requirements to maintain a full
>> > FreeBSD mirror site?
>> 
>> Having asked this before, I can try to answer it...
>> 
>> Hardware:  Disk space to hold the parts you want to mirror.  Are you
>> looking to be just an FTP mirror, a WWW mirror (about 8 megs), a CVSUP
>> mirror, or some combination of all of these?  I would say that a safe
>> bet would be an 8 gig HD for all of them.
> 
> I keep a partial ftp mirror, and it barely fits 20 GB ...

I was about to say.  On ftp3.FreeBSD.org we use 3 9 Gb SCSI disks in a
vinum stripe to hold just XFree86 and a partial mirror of FreeBSD and it
runs at about 86% capacity.

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