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

[Karanbir Singh]

Jon Lewis wrote:
> 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.
> 

http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/yam/

Yam will do all this and more.


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