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--- mirroring.html 5 Aug 2005 23:35:22 -0000 1.1
+++ mirroring.html 5 Aug 2005 23:48:10 -0000 1.2
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
<li>You need to mirror debian-volatile at least once a day </li>
<li>You need to put 'date -u' into /project/trace/$YOURHOSTNAME</li>
<li>You need to have an eMail adress one can write to. <b>Entries will
- be removed, if we are not able to contact you.[1]<b></li>
+ be removed, if we are not able to contact you.[1]</b></li>
</ul>
We differentiate between push mirrors and normal mirrors.</p>
@@ -40,7 +40,36 @@
have a sane one. We do NOT accept mirrors that use debmirror or similar tools
to mirror. These tools are fine for a private mirror, but not usable for full
mirrors, as they exclude many of the useful files! Which basically means: Keep
-a full working mirror the whole time.</p>
+a full working mirror the whole time.The following options to rsync
+(besides what you normally have) do the trick:</p>
+
+<table>
+<tr>
+ <th>Run</th>
+
+ <th>Options</th>
+ <th>Affects</th>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td>1</td>
+<td>--exclude Packages* --exclude Sources* --exclude Release*</td>
+<td>You download new binary files, sources and Packages, but not the metadata for them that <code>apt-get</code>
+ uses. Also note that no delete option is given.</td>
+
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td>2</td>
+<td>--delete --delete-after</td>
+<td>The second run now fetches the files excluded in the first run and also deleted all files not any longer in
+the archive.</td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+
+<p>
+This two-way mirror approach makes sure that users with their apt-get can always fetch the files that are announced
+to be there (via the Packages files), even when your mirror is updating itself at the moment they try to download stuff.
+You are free to use any other option to rsync you may like, but we strongly suggest to use at least -lH.
+</p>
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