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RE: [CentOS-mirror] Rsync on Windows & Mirroring Best Practices
by Mote, Ty R. 17 Sep '06

17 Sep '06

Thank you to everyone who responded back in the mailing list and to those who offered advice offline. I appreciate all of you. I am using cygwin to run rsync and it works beautiully. As many have pointed out, since I am using IIS instead of apache the symlinks and hard links won't work. I expected this and am not too concerned. If this causes problems for users who may access me as a mirror I may port the web hosting portion on to a Linux box. The only reason I don't just run a CentOS server for all of this is that I cannot get funding to buy hardware specifically for this purpose. I am hosting the files on a massive DFS root which is rooted on a M$ Server 2003 box. There is no changing that, and I don't really need to anyway. My server is (and has been) up and running for a couple of days now with no problems. I will be limiting the scope of what I am mirroring to all i386 version 3.0 and up. I have "Scheduled Tasks" working perfectly. Now I just need time to get all the goods over here. Once I am confident that the mirror is working (and noone objects too harshly to publishing me with symlinks and hardlinks not working) I will post my server to the newsgroup. -- Ty R. Mote -----Original Message----- From: centos-mirror-bounces(a)centos.org [mailto:centos-mirror-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Mote, Ty R. Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 9:42 AM To: centos-mirror(a)centos.org Subject: [CentOS-mirror] Rsync on Windows & Mirroring Best Practices Greetings, I am new to the idea of mirroring, but I want to support CentOS by sharing some of my bandwidth. I have read over the CentOS Mirroring HowTo and set everything up as it states. However, the instructions suggest that the reader contacts the mailing list for additional instructions for using "lock files", etc. I have Rsync working on my Windows Server 2003 box in daemon mode. Everything appear to be functional. I would assume that I can now schedule updates using "Scheduled Tasks" in place of CRON. Is this accurate? Lastly, I would like to mirror only the i386 & i386-64bit data (including DVDs, and SRPMs). Would anyone have advice to lend for doing that? Thank you for your assistance! -- Ty R. Mote Assistant Director of Technology Krum Independent School District http://www.krumisd.net O: 940/482-6000x283 C: 806/290-1313 F: 940/482-9951 ty.mote(a)krumisd.net _______________________________________________ CentOS-mirror mailing list CentOS-mirror(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-mirror

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RE: [CentOS-mirror] Rsync on Windows & Mirroring Best Practices
by Sydney Bogaert 15 Sep '06

15 Sep '06

> > > > > > i dont think this is actually going to work on a win2k3 > machine, without > > some external aid (!) > > > > > Well, you'd think someone would get around to inventing some way for > email to carry a little one line tag telling you the subject of the > email! It would avoid these awkward situations! Yar! > > .. Can you do the same thing in perl on Windows? I know active state > has been putting out some perl stuff for windows for a while.... > > ~Will > I think he could also use Cygwin. Pretty straightforward. All the commands are there : bash, rsync, touch, echo, rm, ... Sydney.

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New CentOS Mirror
by Grigorios G. Papazoglou 15 Sep '06

15 Sep '06

Hello list, we have set up one more CentOS mirror, accessible in: http://mirrors.med.uoc.gr/centos This is located in the Faculty of Medicine, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece (http://www.med.uoc.gr). Currently, we mirror only versions 3 and 4, for the i386 platform (soon there will be an upgrade for which we will inform you immediately). This is accessible via a Gigabit line, and currently via HTTP (FTP and perhaps rsync will be considered soon). It is kept in sync 4 times a day. Please contact me via the mailing list for any comments/suggestions. Regards, -- Grigorios G. Papazoglou System Administrator

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Rsync on Windows & Mirroring Best Practices
by Mote, Ty R. 15 Sep '06

15 Sep '06

Greetings, I am new to the idea of mirroring, but I want to support CentOS by sharing some of my bandwidth. I have read over the CentOS Mirroring HowTo and set everything up as it states. However, the instructions suggest that the reader contacts the mailing list for additional instructions for using "lock files", etc. I have Rsync working on my Windows Server 2003 box in daemon mode. Everything appear to be functional. I would assume that I can now schedule updates using "Scheduled Tasks" in place of CRON. Is this accurate? Lastly, I would like to mirror only the i386 & i386-64bit data (including DVDs, and SRPMs). Would anyone have advice to lend for doing that? Thank you for your assistance! -- Ty R. Mote Assistant Director of Technology Krum Independent School District http://www.krumisd.net O: 940/482-6000x283 C: 806/290-1313 F: 940/482-9951 ty.mote(a)krumisd.net

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Mirror Size
by Brian Elliott Finley 09 Sep '06

09 Sep '06

I want to add CENTOS to the list of software that we mirror at Argonne National Laboratory: http://mirror.anl.gov/ I've looked through the mirror pages (http://www.centos.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=22), but was unable to find information on the size of a full mirror. How much space do I need to make available? Cheers, -Brian -- Brian Elliott Finley Linux Strategist, CIS Desk: 630.252.4742 Cell: 630.631.6621

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A new Centos mirror at nic.funet.fi
by Centos Mirror managers at NIC 07 Sep '06

07 Sep '06

Hi, I've set up a new centos mirror at the nic.funet.fi alias ftp.funet.fi (ftp.funet.fi is the server from where Linux was launched 17.9.1991 making us the oldest linux distribution server I guess) during this summer (holidays slowed finalizing it a bit...). In July there seemed to be most times I tried manually problems getting any response from the msync servers, now it seems to be doing OK. HTTP.: http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/centos.org/ FTP..: ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/centos.org/ Rsync: rsync://rsync.nic.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/centos.org/ (BitTorrent is currently under testing, I'm interested in comparing it's performance and statistics with FTP if anyone has those to share. I've been experimenting with PermaSeed but that requires using the Osprey tracker so unless you're using it I'd have to generate separate torrent files or try some other approach.) Version..............: All (I use the rsync settings recommended in the Mirror HOWTO which I guess equals All) Architectures........: All Direct DVD Downloads.: Yes please, but it seems I'd need first access to my-dvd.centos.org::CentOS-incdvd to make it happen. Could that be arranged? Other mirrors could rsync from us too as long as we are not the only source. I'd hope the 2GB limit will gradually disappear... It's practically the same bits as in the set of CDs so if most sites supported DVDs I'd suppose the load would not rise much (rsync, pureftpd, http 2.2.x and Solaris 10 at least seems to be working combination). Preference for mirrors is for nearby (low latency) sites, european late night (but do sync more often if you need to) and the academic community in case we'd need to be preferential someday... Our primary target audience is the finnish academic and research community to which we'll always give preference and best latency. Please let us know if and when you mirror us regularly and you might someday get better service or service break announcements. The GeoIP mapping sounds interesting. We currently provide at least Fedora and Ubuntu DVD:s without major problems to everyone.. Synchronised..: 4 times/day (23 22,3,8,17 * * * currently, but could change) Location......: Finland, EU Bandwidth cap.: 1 Gbit/s (It's a NIC-dedicated network connected on a Juniper router that's connected to the Funet backbone which in turn is connected to NORDunet, Geant, Internet2, FICIX etc. with many gigabits) In practice the speed one gets depends on latencies, number of users and how well the 16GB memory can buffer the files). Organization.......: CSC / Funet (Finnish University and Research Network) Contact email.: centos-mirror(a)nic.funet.fi Main URL......: http://www.nic.funet.fi/ Service window: 15-19 Finnish time on Mondays (for non-urgent Funet related service work, not every monday of course) but breaks and reboots on other times are also possible. Harri Salminen nic.funet.fi coordinator

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instability of msync.centos.org::CentOS (4.4 dir)
by Takash Ichihara 03 Sep '06

03 Sep '06

Hi there, Recently I notified that the CentOS 4.4 directory appeared and disappeared periodically in our mirror server (ftp.riken.jp). After the investigation, I notified that at the CentOS Rsync Master server msync.centos.org::CentOS the 4.4 directory seems to be disappeared sometimes in rsync connection. Since we are mirroring CentOS archives from msync.centos.org::CentOS using "rsync -aqzH --delete" options, when the 4.4 directly cannot be found at msync.centos.org::CentOS at the rsync mirror period, all the 4.4 archives mirrored so far are deleted immediately. And then in the next time when the 4.4 directory is found at msync.centos.org::CentOS, the rsyncing of 4.4 starts from the beginning. This repetition seems to raise the overload of the centos rsync master server (msync.centos.org)... For the temporary solution, I have removed --delete option in rsync command and switched the rsync server to us-msync server. Could someone please investigate this problem ? Thank you in advance. Takashi Ichihara

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be a mirror in Taiwan
by cywang 02 Sep '06

02 Sep '06

HTTP: http://ftp.cse.yzu.edu.tw/pub/CentOS/ ftp: ftp://ftp.cse.yzu.edu.tw/pub/CentOS/ from Computer Science & Engineering of Yuan Ze University in Taiwan ( http://www.cse.yzu.edu.tw ) how often synchronizing the mirror network: two times per day city/state/country : Jung-Li , Taoyuan , Taiwan bandwidth: Gigabit 1000Mbit name and link to the sponsoring organization : Computer Science & Engineering of Yuan Ze University in Taiwan http://www.cse.yzu.edu.tw email address of preferred contact : yzcswang(a)gmail.com

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