Re: [tdf-mirrors] Mirroring DVD/CD ISO files

Hi Thomas, Christian, *,

Thanks for Your offers - that sounds great! :o))

SWITCHmirror Admins schrieb:

> The same applies for mirror.switch.ch, we have enough space.
> Keeping the archive separate from the current stuff is highly
> appreciated.

> For sites with less capacity, it might be preferred to keep the ISO
> images in a separate subtree, easy to exclude.

That sounds reasonable and was what I thought about.
Having no clue how it works with mirrorbrain in detail, I'll proceed to
change that today. :o))

> On 24.01.11 18:13, Christian Rohmann wrote:
> > Friedrich Strohmaier <damokles4-listen@bits-fritz.de> hat am 24.
> > Januar 2011 um 13:15 geschrieben:

> > > Is there already a set of mirrors which can cover that amount of
> > > space?

> > We do have enough space ... I little warning containing numbers
> > like: "50GB coming your way by the end of the week" would be great
> > though.

Well recently we'll come up with with one DVD-Image <= 4.3G but it'll
grow in near future, so for the moment I don't see any real danger even
if a less capabable mirror would accidently sync it.

> > > Any ideas how to proceed?

> > Just start, but keep an eye on the size of the current set that goes
> > out to the mirrors. Most mirrors would, I suppose, only need to
> > carry the most current set of ISOs / Installer packages which gives
> > a natural limit of how mich data needs to be mirrored.

Good point.

> > If later there is some kind of archive folder with older releases
> > mirror admins can decide for themselves where to carry those
> > seldomly accessed files or not.

For the past (in PrOOo-Box ages) we didn't have any public accessible
archive because of space issues. And actually we faced very few
questions to get an old version.

> > My 2 cents,

Thanks for Your responses.

I'll report further steps, we go.


Gruß/regards
-- 
Friedrich
Libreoffice-Box http://libreofficebox.org/
LibreOffice and more on CD/DVD images
(german version already started)


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