Mirroring Dotdeb
August 25th, 2008 | by Guillaume Plessis |If Dotdeb is useful for you and if you want to mirror it, follow these steps :
- Ask me to grant you an access to the Rsync server by providing your public address.
- Add a cron job to periodically fetch the packages :
rsync -a --delete rsync.dotdeb.org::packages/ /your/local/path/
(mirroring twice a day should be enough. More frequent updates could be banned without any warning…)
- Please give me the public URL of your mirror so that I publish it on the mirrors list.
Note to existing mirrors : With the new website, I changed the DNS records of dotdeb.org. Be sure to use rsync.dotdeb.org in your mirror scripts.
Note to leechers : Using anything else than Rsync (Wget, HTTrack…) to mirror Dotdeb could lead to a ban without any warning.
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6 Responses to “Mirroring Dotdeb”
By Scott Grayban on Sep 17, 2008 | Reply
Been trying to email you but all emails sent to your php.net address are not going through and bouncing back. Please email me a address that does not do this. Thanks.
By Xaver Maierhofer on Sep 19, 2008 | Reply
Hello,
how many traffic is normal for a dotdeb mirror?
bye,
xaver maierhofer
By Guillaume Plessis on Sep 19, 2008 | Reply
At this time, it needs between 100 and 150 GB per month.
By Xaver Maierhofer on Sep 19, 2008 | Reply
Thx for the fast answer,
and how many disk_space for all packages?
By Guillaume Plessis on Sep 19, 2008 | Reply
about 500MB of free disk space are needed.
Please ensure your mirror is NOT in a already-listed country, before submiting your request.
By Xaver Maierhofer on Sep 19, 2008 | Reply
Ah, ok
Germany is already listed
Thx for your great service anyways!