Possible Mirrors (was Re: [Fedora-legacy-list] Re: Delay? Looks bad for Fedora)

[Edward E. Iwanski]

Is rsync the preferred way to set up a mirror?  I'd appreciate any good
docs or links if someone would provide.  I've never set one up before,
but would be willing to ask management to host as we have lots of
available bandwidth and have the ability to cap it off if necessary.

- Ed


On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 21:38, David A. Cafaro wrote:
> Just to add to the possible mirrors, I'm trying to arrange a server to
> provide a mirror for the project at my work as well.  I don't know if
> this is a guarantee, waiting on the higher ups to decided (policy thing,
> I only control the technical stuff).  Regardless I'm going to find some
> way to help out (even if It mean finding my old rusty C/C++ skills).
> 
> -David
> 
> On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 20:47, Jesse Keating wrote:
> > On Thursday 06 November 2003 22:51, Martin Kunz wrote:
> > > Just out of curiosity.. what would be the requirements, bandwidth and
> > > storage wise, to act reasonably as a mirror?
> > >
> > > Me and some of my clients will have a much easier life and sleep a
> > > lot better for every additional month that the community can keep the
> > > older releases alive, so we'd like to help out if we can!
> > 
> > Not much initially.  Probably outbound speeds of a T1 or better, capable 
> > of handling or throttling so that the usage doesn't swamp your normal 
> > services.  Storage in the 5gigs area (very soft number, It may take us 
> > QUITE a while to hit 5gigs of updates).
> > 
> > Perhaps some people who run mirrors for Red Hat currently can speak to 
> > the usage they see for just updates.