Mirror Space

[Scott Ritchie]

Austin English wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Scott Ritchie<scott at open-vote.org> wrote:
>> Marty Cannon wrote:
>>> Hey guys,
>>> Since the wine.budgetdedicated.com <http://wine.budgetdedicated.com>
>>> server was down all weekend, I thought I'd offer an additional mirror
>>> location. I currently mirror several major linux distributions, and
>>> would love to contribute to something as valuable to the community as
>>> the wine project is. My site currently runs around 3500GB per month, so
>>> a few hundred GB worth of transfer shouldn't make much difference.
>>> I've never set up an apt mirror, but with some instruction and googling,
>>> I bet I can do it. At the very least, I can mirror the package archive
>>> just incase the main site goes down. Let me know how I can help.
>>>
>>> -Marty Cannon
>>> amarillolinux.com <http://amarillolinux.com>
>>>
>>>
>> It should be up for good now, so this won't be necessary.
>>
>> Please note that the outage was my fault rather than budgetdedicated's
>> -- I had a cron script that kept chewing up memory without my realizing
>> it, eventually crashing apache.
>>
>> I've migrated everything now and it should be taken care of.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Scott Ritchie
>>
>>
>>
> 
> Since when is a mirror a bad thing?
> 

It isn't, of course, however it can't replace the role of apt server
(which would require users to manually alter their sources.list file).

So mirror the archive page, sure, but it'll still be a big problem when
it's down.

Thanks,
Scott Ritchie