From owner-freebsd-hubs Wed Jan 10 13:46:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Received: from labrador.cslab.vt.edu (labrador.cslab.vt.edu [198.82.184.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B6ED37B401 for ; Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:46:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from snowcow.cslab.vt.edu (root@snowcow.cslab.vt.edu [198.82.184.27]) by labrador.cslab.vt.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA25909 for ; Wed, 10 Jan 2001 16:46:05 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from vrivelli@cslab.vt.edu) Received: from localhost (vrivelli@localhost) by snowcow.cslab.vt.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA85118 for ; Wed, 10 Jan 2001 16:46:12 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from vrivelli@cslab.vt.edu) X-Authentication-Warning: snowcow.cslab.vt.edu: vrivelli owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 16:46:12 -0500 (EST) From: Vincent Rivellino To: Subject: Re: mirroring software In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, jason andrade wrote: > a few people have mentioned omi to me. > > if you're willing to mirror from a second or third tier mirror, i definitely > prefer to use rsync. > > -jason 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. Regards, Vince PS: Though I do wish there was an official rsync server. ---------------------------------- Vincent Rivellino UNIX Systems Engineer Department of Computer Science Virginia Tech Email: vrivelli@cs.vt.edu Office: 112 McBryde Hall Office Phone: (540)231-3167 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message