On Sat, 19 Apr 1997, Dean Gaudet wrote: > I run my mirror with the perl mirror package too, works quite well... but > my machine has ram to spare so I've never noticed it chewing it. I run a > bunch of mirrors with it. > > At any rate setting up a cvsup server has been on The List for a while. > If we ran a cvsup server then mirrors could just "cvs update" their local > copy (with the advantage that you could also mirror the code repository). > Anyone tried that before? >
the freebsd project uses this technique for quite a while now. is someone directly involved with them? > Dean > > On Thu, 17 Apr 1997, Karsten W. Rohrbach wrote: > > > we at nacamar use pmirror 2.8 for most of our mirroring jobs, apache > > included. the experience i made with pmirror (which is available as a > > native port for freebsd, our primary os) is, that it runs more stable than > > all the other tools. in the beginning i built the mirror using ncftp, > > which meant a heavy impact on the ftp.apache.org site (ncftp does not > > filter out any errors nor does it delete obsoleted files). pmirror's > > big disadvantage is the fact that it is a memory hog. in 2.8 they added > > support for dbm hashes to store the list of files to retrieve which > > reduces the impact on the machine tremendously. pmirror (as the name > > already says) is written in perl and highly customizable and portable > > (even runs under nt). > > > > are there any better tools out there for remote file distribution? i > > already used sup and rdist in our internal network, but those mechanisms > > are not suitable for remote file distribution with this amount of sites > > that carry the apache mirror. > > > > On Thu, 17 Apr 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > Hi > > > > > > > > > > >Is the list up and running already? > > > I suppose ;-) > > > > > > >We use ProxyPass to "mirror" the archive and we have noticed that > > > >sometimes illegal URLs are generated when browsers follow links. > > > I'm using "wget" on linux platform and there's no problem: if the > > > connection drops out, it's possible do define a number of retries. > > > I get the apache pages from the ftp.apache.org account: > > > > > > wget -m -o mirror.log -r -nH ftp://ftp.apache.org/apache/ > > > > > > Bye > > > Vittorio Moccia > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > With best regards, > > Karsten W. Rohrbach > > > > -- > > Nuclear war can ruin your whole compile. (Karl Lehenbauer) > > > > > With best regards, Karsten W. Rohrbach -- Nuclear war can ruin your whole compile. (Karl Lehenbauer)
