[CentOS-mirror] mirror centos 6.X only

Ryan Becker Ryan at techbnc.org
Thu Dec 26 18:42:23 UTC 2013


Not only that, but using the command to only pull 6 means you miss out on
the TIME and timestamp.txt files. If you miss those, then your mirror will
be marked as out of date, and quickly disabled.


On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 2:27 AM, Anthony Somerset <
anthony at somersettechsolutions.co.uk> wrote:

> that should work - you will have to try it though - bear in mind that when
> 7.x comes out you would have to update your mirroring command if you want
> to only mirror 7.x
>
> using http to mirror is inefficient and is frowned upon heavily because of
> the load it generates on the servers you mirror from. using rsync on this
> scale is most efficient and rsync is actually the most common mechanism for
> mirroring
>
>  Kind regards,
> Anthony Somerset
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> On 24 Dec 2013, at 19:28, Adrian Sevcenco <Adrian.Sevcenco at spacescience.ro>
> wrote:
>
> Hi! I would like to setup a centos mirror but only with centos 6 data.
> Would be enough to use http://eu-msync.centos.org/centos-6 ?
>
> is it ok a command like:
> rsync  -avSH --delay-updates --delete $remote_dir $mirror_dir
>
> where remote-dir is rsync://eu-msync.centos.org/centos-6 ?
>
> is there a way to use a http mechanism? (i imagine that
> eu-msync.centos.org is an alias to the closest mirror and most often the
> http is used and less rsync)
>
> Thanks!
> Adrian
>
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