At some point, Marcelo Magallon had written: > > We (a bunch of guys @ Physics' Department - University of Costa Rica) are > trying to mirror ftp.debian.org, in order to provide a local (Central > America mostly) mirror for debian. We are using the Perl-based Mirror > program by Lee McLoughlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, version 2.3. This is the > first mirror we are trying to run, and we are having some trouble with it. > We've tested it using local (small) ftp servers, and everything seems to > be OK, but when try to mirror ftp.debian.org, it's seems like the script > can't handle it, because it runs out of memory (or at least Perl says so), > and it quits, leaving the mirror unfinished. When we restart the script it > "gets confused" and retrieves files already retrieved (actually, SOME of > the files have changed, but not ALL of them). Bottom line is we haven't > been able to mirror debian beyond the first 30-40 MB. > > We are running Perl 4.0PL36, the one which comes with Slackware 2.0.0, > which in turn is going to be dumped in favor of Debian 0.93R6. > > Any ideas on this subject? Any mirror site`s manager listening? Help... > please. (My apologies is this is way off-topic)
I actually had the same problem with the same program. I think the problem was the way it handles the sym-links. You'll have to delete the binary directory in the main dir, then rm -r debian-0.93, and run your mirror again. Uh.. this is only true if you had the 'old' mirror in place before you started to mirror the r6. Tim
