From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Jun 13 3:59:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from sco.COM (scol.london.sco.COM [150.126.1.48]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 61FBA37B403 for ; Wed, 13 Jun 2001 03:59:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from aris@sco.COM) Received: from severn.london.sco.COM(150.126.20.2), claiming to be "severn.sco.com" via SMTP by scol.london.sco.COM, id smtpdAAAa002mT; Wed Jun 13 11:58:46 2001 Received: from uradoos.london.sco.com by severn.sco.com with smtp id aa09134; Wed, 13 Jun 2001 11:58:25 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <3B2749D3.99989536@sco.com> Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 12:09:07 +0100 From: Aris Stathakis X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77C-CCK-MCD Caldera Systems OpenLinux [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Aaron Namba , freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how do i create a local ftp mirror site to make installs faster? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Aaron Namba wrote: > > Hi, I reinstall FreeBSD quite regularly and downloading at a leisurely > 200-250K/s slows down my installs and is an unnecessary waste of bandwidth. > How can I easily create a mirror of ftp.freebsd.org/pub? The multitude of > links make things easier for the everyday user but much trickier for me as I > try to mirror the site. I'd tar it but unfortunately I don't have a shell > account on the machine... > The original 'mirror' program : http://sunsite.org.uk/packages/mirror/ It has worked well for me - written in perl, and will mirror any remote host via FTP making sure not to duplicate files you already have - it can check the timestmp, size, and many other things. Quite confiugrable too. Aris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message