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www/server mirror.html
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From: |
Karl Berry |
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Subject: |
www/server mirror.html |
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Date: |
Thu, 13 Oct 2011 18:33:33 +0000 |
CVSROOT: /web/www
Module name: www
Changes by: Karl Berry <karl> 11/10/13 18:33:33
Modified files:
server : mirror.html
Log message:
rsync for alpha, and general formatting/text updates.
CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/server/mirror.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.97&r2=1.98
Patches:
Index: mirror.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /web/www/www/server/mirror.html,v
retrieving revision 1.97
retrieving revision 1.98
diff -u -b -r1.97 -r1.98
--- mirror.html 12 Oct 2011 00:06:06 -0000 1.97
+++ mirror.html 13 Oct 2011 18:33:26 -0000 1.98
@@ -45,30 +45,36 @@
</ul>
<p>rsync is so much more efficient than other protocols that we
-always recommend rsync for mirror transfers. Specifically, with
+always recommend rsync for mirror transfers, with
the options above, to ensure an exact copy.</p>
-<p>You can keep your mirror private but if you would like to be added to the <a
-href="/order/ftp.html">public mirror list</a>, we require at least a daily
-update frequency. <i>After</i> establishing your mirror contact
-<a href="mailto:address@hidden";><address@hidden></a> so we can
-review it.</p>
-
-<p>Please provide the URL of the mirror (ftp/http/rsync as appropriate),
-country where the mirror is located, update frequency, and preferred contact
-information in case we need to report problems with this mirror in the future.
-We will keep all contact information confidential. Please also let us know if
-your site can also offer general access for other mirrors.</p>
+<p>You can keep your mirror private, but we appreciate the support if
+you can make your mirror public. To add your mirror to the <a
+href="/order/ftp.html">public mirror list</a>, we require (and
+recommend) a daily update frequency. <em>After</em> establishing your
+mirror, please contact <a
+href="mailto:address@hidden";><address@hidden></a> so we
+can review it. Please provide the following:</p>
+
+<ul>
+<li>URL of the mirror (ftp/http/rsync as appropriate),</li>
+<li>country where the mirror is located,</li>
+<li>update frequency (once daily is recommended),</li>
+<li>preferred contact information for any mirror-related issues
+ (we will keep all contact information confidential), and</li>
+<li>whether your site can also be a source for other mirrors.</li>
+</ul>
<p>In general, mirrors run by both individuals and organizations that want to
support free software are welcome and appreciated. Mirrors that are run for
the purpose of gaining advertising links or other recognition from our site,
or that are engaged in unethical activity, are not accepted on our list.</p>
-<h3>Web server setup for mirrors</h3>
-<p>If your mirror will be available to users via http (which is very
-useful, so please enable this if you can), please set up your
+<h3>Web setup for mirrors</h3>
+
+<p>It is very useful to make your mirror available to users via http, so
+please support this if you can. Please set up your web server
configuration to avoid sending <tt>.gz.sig</tt> files (signatures of
compressed files, of which there are many on our servers) as
gzip-encoded. For Apache, this means:</p>
@@ -89,8 +95,7 @@
<pre>
AddEncoding x-gzip gz tgz
</pre>
-<p>then the RemoveEncoding lines should also not have a leading
-dot.</p>
+<p>then the RemoveEncoding lines should also not have a leading dot.</p>
<p>Finally, we highly recommend the following setting, so that users can
see full filenames in generated listings instead of having them be
@@ -112,12 +117,13 @@
href="http://www.ibiblio.org/help/";>submitted to ibiblio</a>.</p>
-<h3>Mirroring the GNU Alpha FTP server</h3>
+<h3>Mirroring the GNU Alpha release server</h3>
-<p>These sites also offer alpha.gnu.org (around 2GB) for your mirroring
-pleasure:</p>
+<p>ftp.gnu.org and other sites also offer alpha.gnu.org (around 10GB) for
+your mirroring pleasure:</p>
<ul>
+<li><tt>rsync://ftp.gnu.org/alpha/</tt></li>
<li><tt>rsync://mirrors.ibiblio.org/gnualpha/</tt></li>
<li><tt>rsync://ftp.funet.fi/ftp/pub/mirrors/alpha.gnu.org/gnu/</tt></li>
<li><tt>rsync://gnu.c3sl.ufpr.br/gnu/alpha/</tt></li>
@@ -128,32 +134,38 @@
<h3 id="nongnu">Mirroring nongnu releases from Savannah</h3>
-<p>We are also looking for volunteers to mirror releases of the
+<p>We also greatly appreciate additional mirrors of the
<em>nongnu</em> projects hosted at <a
-href="http://savannah.nongnu.org";>savannah.nongnu.org</a>. The total is
-currently around 12GB. To do this, we strongly suggest you retrieve and
-update the files using
-<tt>rsync -rltpHS --delete-excluded rsync://dl.sv.gnu.org/releases/</tt> <i>yourdir</i>
-<br />These options ensure that it is an exact mirror. (There will
+href="http://savannah.nongnu.org/";>savannah.nongnu.org</a>. The total is
+currently around 22GB. To do this, we recommend you retrieve and
+update the files using rsync, with the same options as above for
+ftp.gnu.org, namely:</p>
+
+<pre>
+rsync -rltpHS --delete-excluded rsync://dl.sv.gnu.org/releases/ /your/dir
+</pre>
+
+<p>These options ensure that it is an exact mirror. (There will
probably be some permission errors; just ignore them. They are due to
-choices or mistakes by individual savannah project maintainers.)</p>
+choices or mistakes by individual project maintainers.)</p>
<p>It is fine to update savannah/nongnu once a day as well; twice a day
if you like. More than that is not worth the bandwidth, the contents
are not that dynamic.</p>
-<p>If you are able to help with this, please <a
+<p>If you can help with this, please <a
href="mailto:address@hidden";>email us</a> with the url to your
mirror so we can add you to the <a
-href="http://dl.sv.gnu.org/releases/00_MIRRORS.html";>list</a>. Thanks!</p>
+href="http://dl.sv.gnu.org/releases/00_MIRRORS.html";>list</a>.
+Thanks!</p>
<h3>(Not) Mirroring the GNU web server</h3>
<p>We no longer recommend creating web mirrors, because it has turned
-out that (a) few users can use them, and (b) many mirrors
-either became out of date or went offline relatively frequently. We
-don't want outdated information about the GNU project to be
+out that (a) few people can make use of them, and (b) many
+mirrors either became out of date or went offline relatively frequently.
+We don't want outdated information about the GNU project to be
disseminated.</p>
<p>Nonetheless, if you wish to mirror www.gnu.org for your own
@@ -169,7 +181,7 @@
CacheEnable disk /
</pre>
-<p>Thanks to Juri Hoerner for providing this Apache information.</p>
+<p>(Thanks to Juri Hoerner for providing this Apache information.)</p>
<!-- If needed, change the copyright block at the bottom. In general, -->
<!-- all pages on the GNU web server should have the section about -->
@@ -204,7 +216,7 @@
<p>Updated:
<!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2011/10/12 00:06:06 $
+$Date: 2011/10/13 18:33:26 $
<!-- timestamp end -->
</p>
</div>