Re: Looking at were we are...

era eriksson (era@iki.fi)
Sun, 23 May 1999 16:44:07 +0300 (EET DST)

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On Fri, 21 May 1999 19:01:00 -0400, Al Gilman <asgilman@iamdigex.net>
wrote:
> At 04:48 PM 5/21/99 -0500, Kent Landfield wrote:
>> I've discussed mirroring with one of the sites and it never went anywhere.
>> I'll propose it again and see what kind of response I get.
> 2. One root of the problem, as you said, is the brute force way you are
> synchronizing with rtfm.mit.edu. Aren't there ftp daemons which do a
> reasonable job of incremental mirroring? Then again, this probably means
> changing server configuration at rtfm.mit.edu. Not to be assumed.

Incremental mirroring is probably what everybody is using, but when
the site to mirror is as big as this, checking the time stamp on each
file can already be burdensome.

However, as Ken is running a primary mirror and the others would
effectively be running secondaries, it should be possible to simply
feed them a listing of which files have actually been updated since
their last visit.

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