bitsavers mirror is up and in sync!

From: Ashley Carder <wacarder_at_usit.net>
Date: Wed Jun 30 10:48:00 2004

Don't shoot me!!! *hides behind large steel wall*
I run my web server / ftp server on Windows 2000 and IIS.

I'll hunt for something that I can use on my server.

How long does it take your mirroring to run on a typical day?
I assume it checks for new / changed / deleted(?) files and pulls only
those.

Ashley

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jay West" <jwest_at_classiccmp.org>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
<cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 11:32 AM
Subject: Re: bitsavers mirror is up and in sync!


> I use fmirror
>
> If you are using freebsd and have the ports collection installed, just do
> the following:
>
> cd /usr/ports/ftp/fmirror
> make;make install
>
> Otherwise download the distribution. Linux RPM's exist as well as generic
> source tarballs... google is your friend.
>
> Then create a fmirror.conf file (mine is in /usr/local/etc) similar to...
>
> username: whateverusernameAlgaveyou
> password: whateveryourpasswordis
> host: www.bitsavers.org
> remotedir: /Users/aek/web/bitsavers/pdf
> localdir: /pathtowhereveryourmirrordirectoryis
> exclude: f
> ^(\.in\.|\.mirror|core$|MIRROR\.LOG|\.notar|\.message)
> exclude: f ^(\.cache|\.zipped|lost\+found|Network Thrash
> Folder)
>
> Then put a line in crontab to run it periodically such as:
> 0 2 * * * root /usr/local/bin/fmirror -f
> /usr/local/etc/fmirror.conf
>
> Try to stay away from 2am CDT, thats my timeslot :)
>
> Jay West
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ashley Carder" <wacarder_at_usit.net>
> To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
> <cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 10:14 AM
> Subject: Re: bitsavers mirror is up and in sync!
>
>
> > Jay,
> >
> > What do you use to keep your mirror in sync? I need to
> > implement something to do that to the mirror that I'm
> > maintaining.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Ashley
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Jay West" <jwest_at_classiccmp.org>
> > To: <cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 11:00 AM
> > Subject: bitsavers mirror is up and in sync!
> >
> >
> > > The mirror at classiccmp of bitsavers.org is up and fully in sync with
> > Al's
> > > site now. You can access it via http://www.classiccmp.org/bitsavers
> > >
> > > This mirror is updated once a day at 2am CDT.
> > >
> > > Jay
> > >
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> > >
> >
> >
> >
>
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Received on Wed Jun 30 2004 - 10:48:00 BST

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