From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Mar 31 1: 6: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from brunel.uk1.vbc.net (brunel.uk1.vbc.net [194.207.2.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 218AE37B82B; Fri, 31 Mar 2000 01:06:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lloyd@brunel.uk1.vbc.net) Received: from localhost (lloyd@localhost) by brunel.uk1.vbc.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA37325; Fri, 31 Mar 2000 10:06:02 +0100 (BST) Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 10:06:02 +0100 (BST) From: Lloyd Rennie To: John Baldwin Cc: Jesper Skriver , hackers@FreeBSD.org, Patrick Gardella Subject: Re: Mirror requirements In-Reply-To: <200003301820.NAA91182@server.baldwin.cx> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, John Baldwin wrote: > 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. Right. Thanks to all who replied - will budget lots and lots of gigs ;-) -- Lloyd Rennie VBCnet GB Ltd lloyd@vbc.net tel +44 (0) 117 929 1316 http://www.vbc.net fax +44 (0) 117 927 2015 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message