On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 02:32:20PM -0700, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > > What does it take to setup a mirror? I have largely idle bandwidth in an > abovenet colo that would be fine for a debian mirror. > Not long, as Debian provides most of the scripts that you need in order to set it up. Right now it takes over 30 gigs of disk space, however it is been growing quite a bit lately due to new architectures and stuff. I expect it to really get big once crypto is moved to main. The problem is, there are plenty of mirrors out there, and most of them are just fine when it comes to being up to date. I'm not sure there's a need for more mirrors at all at this point; the problem is that many primary mirrors are broken. Twice I offered my mirror, debian.lcs.mit.edu, as a primary mirror, and twice I was told basically "thanks, but we don't need another primary mirror". As a result, my mirror, which is a brand new GHz PIII with a gig of RAM, fat pipes, and much RAID storage, goes largely unused outside the local community (for which it is complete overkill). Setting up a mirror is fine, but based on my experiences it's not likely to get much use. noah -- _______________________________________________________ | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ | PGP Public Key: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html
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