| I'm not concerned about maintenance/unscheduled downtime - I was just a bit worried when the Emdebian root disappeared from http://ftp.uk.debian.org/ because the machine itself, and it's Debian root, were still up and fine, and so I wondered if that mirror of Emdebian had been discontinued. I'm not very familiar with Debian repository/mirroring intricacies. -Patrick On 2011-03-09, at 1:07 PM, Neil Williams wrote: On Wed, 9 Mar 2011 12:48:12 -0700 Patrick McNeil <patrick@phidgets.com> wrote: Is it normal for the mirror to disappear completely during Maintenance? Any machine undergoing maintenance will disappear during such times, as far as internet connections are concerned. Copying the data to another machine would take many hours, even if there was another machine around. In this case, there would be little point in copying anything because there are other machines with the same data which remain available. Round-robin methods sound useful but, in practice, make little difference. If you need access to a particular machine so often that unscheduled downtime is such an issue then you have bigger problems than any one machine can solve. Would it be better to use the official repository as the default? The mirror was set up because www.emdebian.org was having problems at that particular time. No single machine is ever immune to unscheduled maintenance. Once you set up your own mirror you'll notice exactly the same thing. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ |