From owner-freebsd-hubs Wed Jan 10 14: 0:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Received: from piglet.dstc.edu.au (piglet.dstc.edu.au [130.102.176.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27CE337B69D for ; Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:59:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from azure.dstc.edu.au (azure.dstc.edu.au [130.102.176.27]) by piglet.dstc.edu.au (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id f0ALxDH01723; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 07:59:13 +1000 (EST) Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 07:59:38 +1000 (EST) From: jason andrade To: Vincent Rivellino Cc: hubs@FreeBSD.ORG 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 > 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