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

[Sven Hoexter]

On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 09:38:44PM -0800, Jesse Keating wrote:

Hi,

> On Friday 07 November 2003 21:31, Edward E. Iwanski wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> I do believe rsync is preferred, not sure if we're going to do rsync over 
> ssh or not.
rsync itself produces a high load on the server side, with rsync over ssh
it will be even higher and for public updates I don't see a reason for the
use of ssh.

I personaly prefer the good old mirror.pl script.

Sven
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