Topic: I'm setting up a mirror in Denmark!

[Denbert]

Hi there,

I'm setting up a mirror om my server with rsync.

Do we really need all the obsolete versions?

I'm running this command as suggested here http://wiki.contribs.org/Mirrors:

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rsync -aHhimOSz --partial --timeout 300 --delay-updates --delete-after --delete --max-delete 1000 ibiblio.org::Linux/distributions/smeserver/ /home/smeserver/

[Denbert]

Anyone got a solution to change timeout settings on ssh?

I'm using putty, and are trying to rsync the mirror on a remote mashine in my hosting center.

the rsync times out, and it's a bit strange, as a putty with "htop" can run for days whitout timeout.

I have tried to change timeout in my command line to this:

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rsync -aHhimOSz --partial --timeout 500 --delay-updates --delete-after --delete --max-delete 1000 ibiblio.org::Linux/distributions/smeserver/ /home/smeserver/

[cactus]

I'm setting up a mirror om my server with rsync.

Very nice, please report a bug in the bugtracker against the contribs.org website for it as well and please put a onter to it in this thread for future refference.

Do we really need all the obsolete versions?

Please ask this in the bug as well as I do not know how the routing is configured and if we can assign you for certain folders only.

It would be nice, if you could spare the ~12Gb, if not you should be able to exclude it by adding something like the following line to your rsync command:

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--exclude=obsoletes/*

[cactus]

Anyone got a solution to change timeout settings on ssh?

I think the easiest solution is to configure your download job as a cronjob or if you really want to control it manually use screen. With this application you can start a terminal, execute a command, detach and log out and attach again after login. You should be able to install screen like this:

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yum install screen
For more details on screen take a look here: http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/

[Denbert]

Thanks Cactus,

I'll try to skip the obsolete by adding the suggested syntax to the command line.

I'll look at the screen suggestion, and hopefully a mirror will be up and running within a week or so.

How often should the cron job be running, is once a week OK?

[cactus]

How often should the cron job be running, is once a week OK?

No, first sync to ibiblio, in the mean time raise a bug. You will (most likely) receive instructions on what to do next in that bug. Normal sync frequencies are around very 3 hours IIRC.

[Denbert]

Very nice, please report a bug in the bugtracker against the contribs.org website for it as well and please put a onter to it in this thread for future refference.

Done = http://bugs.contribs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5233

[Denbert]

Sorry Cactus, thanks for the corrected bug report 

[cactus]

Sorry Cactus, thanks for the corrected bug report 

No problem. Thanks for providing a mirror.

[Denbert]

How do i know when the mirror is in sync?

anyone got a suggestion for a cronjob?

[cactus]

How do i know when the mirror is in sync?

Rsync would not download any files anymore.

anyone got a suggestion for a cronjob?

What is wrong with using the same as you used to download? Did you look at screen for your initial download? You can use cron to sync once you are in sync.