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Old 10-27-2005, 10:34 PM   #1
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Making a Mirror

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.

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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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