HEADS UP: people running www.freebsd.org mirrors! Switch from cvsup to rsync please.

[Peter Wemm]

On Saturday 24 May 2014 16:54:28 Peter Wemm wrote:
> If you are running a www mirror that is being updated via cvsup, *please
> stop* and switch to rsync.
[..]
> To switch, please use something like this:
> 
> $ rsync -aHz --delete rsync://bit0.us-west.freebsd.org/FreeBSD-www-data/
> /home/mirror/www-data/
> 
> of note, -H for tracking hard links, and --delete to clean up old
> files.  Don't run rsync as root, etc etc.
> 
> 
> However I would like to make a plea here. Please take a peek at your
> server's traffic logs to check that it makes sense to keep the mirror
> going and that it's not just bots.  I'm aware that people run them for a
> variety of reasons (anything from language variants to local content to
> improving latency to participating in the community etc), but please
> don't feel obligated to keep running one if there is no longer a
> reason.  A neglected mirror is far worse than no mirror.
> 
> Even worse, we risk being penalized in search engines for duplicated
> content because it looks like spam to certain algorithms.
> 
> If it's time to stop, contact the hostmaster for your zone and have the
> dns and mirror lists updated. Please don't let them go to dead air.

*bump*

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