Making a Mirror

[catacon]

How do you make your site into a mirror, like for downloads and stuff? I always see sites that ask you to download from a mirrow to keep their bandwidth down, and I was wondering how you do that.

Thanks!

[mairving]

It is difficult to answer your question since it would depend upon who you are doing the mirror for. They all would have different requirements for becoming a mirror.

[catacon]

Well, generally speaking, how do you do it? I'm not lookking at a specific site, I was just wanting to know how it's done.

[mairving]

Originally Posted by catacon Well, generally speaking, how do you do it? I'm not lookking at a specific site, I was just wanting to know how it's done.

Still difficult to answer since it varies so much from site to site. You would need a site for one. You would need some kind of mirroring software. You would have to be approved by the main site. Here is how to become a mirror for Postfix, a mail server.

In order to have your Postfix mirror site listed on the Postfix web site, please send mail to wietse@porcupine.org that answers the following questions. Please note: Wietse often saves up the website updates for a week or more before going through them. Timeliness: specify your mirroring frequency. Use a mirroring procedure that: runs as a CRON job runs least once a day. Accuracy: specify what mirroring software will you be using. Use mirroring software that: downloads only the new files removes all files that no longer exist on the primary server. Wietse's preferred mirroring utility is at http://www.sunsite.org.uk/packages/mirror/ What: specify what files you are going to mirror: source code: ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/mirrors/postfix-release/ web pages: ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/mirrors/postfix-master/ Where: specify at what URLs the information will be made available. Location: specify what city/country should be listed on the Postfix web site.

Other sites would have differing requirements but the same general idea.