ftp.uk.freebsd.org doesnt have FreeBSD mirrored

[Christiaan Keet]

On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 11:53:16PM +0100, Dr Josef Karthauser wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-freebsd-hubs at freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-
> > hubs at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Vince Hoffman
> > Sent: 21 May 2008 09:30
> > To: freebsd-hubs at freebsd.org
> > Subject: ftp.uk.freebsd.org doesnt have FreeBSD mirrored
> > 
> > Hi,
> >  I sent this to the uk freebsd users group originally a few days ago as
> > they had been discussing changing the cvsup mirror order, but had no
> > response, thus the email here.
> > 
> > 	ftp.uk.freebsd.org No longer seems to mirror freebsd (see ftp
> > transcipt
> > below.) It might be worth (possibly temporarily) promoting one of the
> > other uk mirrors)
> 
> Thanks for the feedback.  The plig server suffered major disk failure, and
> the admin told me that it was now back on-line. I'll poke him about the ftp
> mirror.

So we built a new mirror server, which promptly ran out of disk
space available on its 2TB array. Seems I underestimated things
slightly :)

The new-new ftp.uk.freebsd.org is now up and running and happily
updating itself with 5TB of free space remaining - about 3/4 of
the way through the rebuild of its data. I trust that will hold for
a while.

Any pointers as to how we can regain rsync access[1] to a master site
please?  Emails to ftp-master at freebsd.org[2] on 6, 29 July and 29 Sept
have so far gone unanswered.

- CK

[1] That's the contact address you get from the banner when doing
rsync rsync://ftp-master.freebsd.org/

[2] I know the banner asks to use cvsup instead, but seriously - I
had it running for days on end and it didn't get very far. Suggesting
that rsync really is still preferable for main mirrors[3]

[3] Once we have rsync access restored, I'm more than happy for
people to mirror off us as well. We'll be a full mirror again,
updating daily and bandwdth is cheap :)