Re: Building router/mirror server

On Wednesday 08 June 2005 10:35 am, Damien Hull wrote:
> As most of you know by now we had problems connecting to the net at
> last Fridays meeting. I'm going to try and build a router/firewall
> and mirror server. I've got a Fedora mirror but I don't have Debian
> and Suse.
>
> Can one of the Debian experts tell me how to build a Debian mirror?
> I'm thinking "rsync".
>
> I'll look into setting up a Suse mirror. Stan has a server setup for
> the base install so I'm only going to mirror the updates.
>
> I would like to start this today. It'll take a few days to download
> everything. Once I have it on my main server I can transfer it to the
> system I'll bring on Friday. That shouldn't take too long.

Fielder and I both have Debian mirrors,portable-external USB drives. You
could rsync from one of these on Friday nite, i386, ppc, amd64 to come.
Or use 'debmirror' from a Debian box (I have a script to use), or
rsync will work from any other box.

-- 
Greg Madden
Precision Air Balance, Inc.
Phone: 907-276-0461
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