[CentOS-mirror] Mirror setup (also new mirror announce)

[Lance Davis]

On Mon, 27 Feb 2006, William Dunn wrote:

> I would suggest lots of --exclude directives in your rsync script; for 
> instance,
> 
> rsync -aqzH --partial --delete --exclude '/3.*' --exclude '/2.*' 
> us-msync.centos.org::CentOS /foo/bar/pub/CentOS
> 
> or, barring that,
> 
> rsync -blah -blah --exclude '/2' --exclude '/2.1' --exclude '/3' 
> --exclude '/3.1' --exclude and so forth
> 
> I mean, I'm a n00b, and there's probably a better way to do it; but that 
> should work (crosses fingers).
> 
> 
> I'd also like to take this opportunity to introduce myself.  My name's 
> Will, and I'm the Linux admin for the Computer Science Department at 
> Virginia Tech.  I've set up a publicly available CentOS mirror at 
> http://mirror.cs.vt.edu/pub/CentOS and 
> ftp://mirror.cs.vt.edu/pub/CentOS/ - At some point, there will be an 
> entry page at http://mirror.cs.vt.edu/ but for the moment... there's not.
> I sync from us-msync once or twice a day, and I am planning on upping 
> that to 4 times soon.  My upload isn't capped (yet); I'm waiting to see 
> how much interest there is in the mirror before I decide that it needs 
> to be capped.  We're tied into the University's OC48; but I am sharing 
> with 20,000 students and faculty members.

Thanks Will, I have added your mirror to the database and it shpould show 
up shortly.

Please advise if you do restrict it as we may need to move it out of T1 - 
depending n the restriction ...

Regards
Lance
> 
> 
> ~Will
> CS Technical Staff
> Virginia Tech
> 
> 
> 
> weeteck at cnixal.com wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I'm on my way to mirror CentOS but only intend to mirror CentOS 4. Any
> > help on how to rsync only the particular version?
> > 
> > 
> > Cheers
> > 
> > Teck
> > 
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