----- "Jamie Walker" jj.walker@gmail.com wrote:

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 7:41 AM, Tim Nelson tnelson@rockbochs.com wrote:

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I'll be setting up a mirror shortly for Centos-5 on x86 and x86_64

archs. How much disk space should I allocate for this? I'm assuming at least 10GB per arch?

mirrorservice.org have a useful web frontend that shows the space in use in each directory. See http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/mirror.centos.org/ ...

Thank you! That helps quite a bit! Since I'll only be mirroring the os and update repos for both archs, it looks like I'll be sitting at ~20GB or so.

--Tim

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 12:51:28PM -0600, Tim Nelson wrote:

Thank you! That helps quite a bit! Since I'll only be mirroring the os and update repos for both archs, it looks like I'll be sitting at ~20GB or so.

If you don't intend to make a public mirror with all the required repos (isos/SRPMS/...) please don't use the centos.org servers and sync from the listed tier 1 mirrors.

<quote from rsync from centos.org "agreement"> msync.CentOS.org rsync service -------------------------------

This service is intended for the sole use of the CentOS worldwide mirror network to synchronize mirrors.

Unless you are running or intending to run a listed public CentOS mirror use a mirror listed at http://www.CentOS.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=13

If you intend to populate a mirror for public use please read the notes at :- http://www.CentOS.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=15

If you do use this service then it is implied that you are providing a mirror for public use and giving us authority to publicise such mirror.

</quote>

Thanks,

Tru

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 02:51:41PM -0600, Tim Nelson wrote:

I appreciate the pointer above in regards to mirror usage. I'd be creating this local mirror to remove some load from the other mirrors as we provision anywhere between 1-25 CentOS based servers per week. In this case, what mirror would I use for syncing these repos?

any of the public mirrors listed at http://www.centos.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=30 http://www.centos.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=31 http://www.centos.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=32

pick the closest to you (rsync?) and as a courtesy to the mirror manager you are pulling from, just send them an email?

Also, is it possible to create a repo in a sort of 'cache' mode where packages are only stored on the local repo if requested by a device using the repo? Essentially a 'yum caching proxy' for lack of a better term?

a squid proxy might be able to do it (the centos mailing list may be more appropriate for this kind of discussion), see also cobbler.

Cheers.

Tru