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RE: Are PIK mirrors obsolete?



Ha! I had debian-cd (or maybe another cd tool) delete my complete data drive
because I figured it could build the image right in the root of that drive
as it was only one file. It somehow thought it was needed to rm-rf that dir.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wookey [mailto:wookey@aleph1.co.uk]
> Sent: dinsdag 28 mei 2002 14:42
> To: Richard Atterer
> Cc: debian-cd@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Are PIK mirrors obsolete?
>
>
> On Mon 27 May, Richard Atterer wrote:
> > The important thing first: jigdo-mirror needs more testers! When 3.0r0
> > is released, cdimage will be so overloaded that any rsync-based
> > mirroring will be very slow, so set up jigdo-mirror instead!
>
> Well I was just about to try it (having got my mirror almost back
> uptodate)
> when an injudicious change to using ftp.at instead of ftp.uk, de
> or no (cos
> apt-spy said it was fastest) let rsync delete half my archive
> (pool/main/m-z)
> before I noticed and stopped it (massive whinge - that's the second time
> that's happened to me, but it was a much smaller deal with potato
> then it is
> with pool).
>
> So now I'm set back a couple of weeks or three. I'll try it again when my
> archive's back.
>
> Wookey
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