About maintaining a mirror

[Rodolfo J. Paiz]

At 19:06 11/7/2003, you wrote:
>I would like to setup a local Fedora mirror. Currently I am using
>fmirror with a fairly obscure configuration file to mirror RedHat
>Linux distribution and the updates. It should work with Fedora too but
>I am wondering if there is a better (or even recommended) way of doing
>this.

Several mirrors of Red Hat (I used to run one) simply use rsync. I can give 
you my configuration if you like... it's extremely easy. Basically, find 
another mirror who supports rsync and "rsync -av rsync-host::rsync-path/ 
/local/path/to/files/" and you're done. Read the man page for great things 
like "--bwlimit" and the various include and exclude functions.

Rsync can also be a wonderful remote copying and mirroring option over ssh 
to use between two of your systems. Simply "rsync -av -e ssh" and you're 
good to go.


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Rodolfo J. Paiz
rpaiz at simpaticus.com