Mirroring in .br

Ricardo Bueno da Silva rbueno at ccuec.unicamp.br
Wed Dec 3 02:23:32 PST 2003


On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 11:36:21PM -0200, João Carlos Mendes Luís wrote:
> Daniel C. Sobral wrote:
> >People, I'm moving my mirror to a new machine, where I'll be able to 
> >keep a full mirror. Presently I rsync and cvsup from The Masters, but 
> >I'm considering going for exclusive cvsup use (how do the packages fare, 
> >rsync vs cvsup?).
> 
> Note that cvsup drops down to rsync protocol if the source is not a CVS 
> repository.  So, there may be no advantage in the change.
> 
> >I'm also considering cvsupping closer to home. Are there any full 
> >mirrors around I can sync with?
> 
> Maybe Matrix Internet.  They have an IBM Shark file server with lots of 
> disk space.  I may say that UFRJ does not have full mirror, and really 
> doubt Unicamp has too.

You're right.  I don't have full mirror.

Nowadays I have last release (including packages-release) for:

alpha and i386   (4.9 and 5.1)
amd64, ia64, pc98 and sparc64    (5.1)

and CERT, docs and some ISOs.

Ricardo

> 
> Maybe your best chance is traceroute to all tier-1 mirrors and select the 
> one with most bandwidth available.
> 
>                                         Jonny
> 
> -- 
> João Carlos Mendes Luís - Networking Engineer - jonny at jonny.eng.br
> 
> 
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