[WBEL-users] creating a new mirror?

[Erik Williamson]

Hi Jon,

Here's what I use - NCSU is always current:

rsync -a \
     rsync://mirror.physics.ncsu.edu/whitebox/3.0 \
     /path/to/your/mirror/

Best,
Erik.

Jon Lewis wrote:
> I've run a Red Hat mirror for the past several years and would like to
> setup a WBEL mirror now.  We're slowly migrating many of our servers from
> various versions of Red Hat to WBEL and I'd like to have a local
> mirror both for our own benefit and for public use.
> 
> We're multihomed, have several hundred mbit/s of transit, and wouldn't
> mind being an officially used mirror.
> 
> Is there any sort of mirror "program" similar to what Red Hat does?  i.e.
> restricted access to a set of master servers via rsync for official
> mirrors.  If not, are there any recommended steps for setting up a mirror?
> 
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