Andrew, Thanks for the quick reply. I actually just discovered www.apache.org::jakarta-site/builds/ and figured that was the part of the side I actually _did_ want to mirror. The request from our user was for faster access downloading the software, which I thought was exactly what jakarta-site/builds/ is. Our user doesn't have much interest in building from source, just quicker access to the binaries. What would the value be in mirroring all of jakarta-site? I have the 6GB to spare on our mirror server for the builds (plus probably enough for all of jakarta-site if there's a reason), as long as apache doesn't mind us taking a bit of bandwidth to get it started.
Thanks, Dave Coulthart On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 01:49:57PM +1100, Andrew Kenna wrote: > The Jakarta project is available via rsync. > > Do an rsync www.apache.org::jakarta-site --exclude builds > > N.b. The builds directory is approx 6gb > > Andrew Kenna > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -----Original Message----- > From: David Coulthart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, 13 November 2002 1:29 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: mirroring jakarta? > > > I maintain a local mirror (not publically accessible), which carries the > apache software by rsync'ing with www.apache.org::apache-dist. I've > received a request to mirror jakarta, but I have found that jakarta-dist > is not available via rsync & I don't seem to find any public mirrors > that actually have it either. I believe I remember reading a thread a > while back about this particular issue, but I wanted to see if there > were any updates on the subject? > > The user requesting jakarta specifically noted how slow it is to > retrieve it from apache.org & it seems like this is exactly what a > mirror is supposed to help. The idea was brought up of using wget to > mirror jakarta.apache.org/builds/, but I don't really want to have to > write the script for this & I'd prefer to save the bandwidth by using > rsync if it all possible. > > Thanks, > Dave Coulthart
