Mirroring Dotdeb

August 25th, 2008 | by Guillaume Plessis |

If Dotdeb is useful for you and if you want to mirror it, follow these steps :

  1. Ask me to grant you an access to the Rsync server by providing your public address.
  2. 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…)

  3. 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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  1. 6 Responses to “Mirroring Dotdeb”

  2. 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.

  3. By Xaver Maierhofer on Sep 19, 2008 | Reply

    Hello,

    how many traffic is normal for a dotdeb mirror?

    bye,
    xaver maierhofer

  4. By Guillaume Plessis on Sep 19, 2008 | Reply

    At this time, it needs between 100 and 150 GB per month.

  5. By Xaver Maierhofer on Sep 19, 2008 | Reply

    Thx for the fast answer,

    and how many disk_space for all packages?

  6. 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.

  7. By Xaver Maierhofer on Sep 19, 2008 | Reply

    Ah, ok
    Germany is already listed ;)

    Thx for your great service anyways!

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