Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 07:59:38 +1000 (EST) From: jason andrade <jason@dstc.edu.au> To: Vincent Rivellino <vrivelli@cslab.vt.edu> Cc: hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mirroring software Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.20.0101110755330.13610-100000@azure.dstc.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.31.0101101641070.84948-100000@snowcow.cslab.vt.edu>
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> 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
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