[WBEL-users] Is there a HowTo for becoming a mirror

[Jon Lewis]

I'd like to add that you can save several gigabytes of traffic if you
just grab the ISOs and use those to populate /path/to/local/mirror, after
which, there's no point in rsyncing the entire tree, but rather just the
updates.

To save space on your mirror, if you're running Linux or some other OS
with similar capabilities, you can use a combination of autofs, loopback
mounts, and lots of symlinks to create the file tree based on files in the
ISOs.  I did this on mirror.atlantic.net for the last few redhat releases.

If there's interest, I can try to find some time to write up an actual
howto based on WBEL.

On Wed, 15 Dec 2004, Aly Dharshi wrote:

> Thanks Erik, we should be up and running in the next couple of hours or day or so !
>
> Cheers,
>
> 	Aly.
>
> Erik Williamson wrote:
> > This ought to do it:
> >
> > rsync -a \
> >     rsync://mirror.physics.ncsu.edu/whitebox \
> >     /path/to/local/mirror
> >
> > Best,
> > e.
> >
>
>
> --
> Aly Dharshi
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