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Setting up a mirror

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If you want to set up a mirror of OpenVZ downloads, here's how.

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Contents

Setting up the mirroring process

To initially mirror the contents, run

rsync -av --delete rsync://download.openvz.org/openvz-download /local/path

Next step is to add the cron job to run the same rsync command regularly. It is suggested to do that at least hourly.

Setting up an access to your mirror

When you are ready to open up your mirror, set up HTTP/FTP access to it. Preferrably, the mirror should be available at http://openvz.yoursite.com/ or http://mirrors.yoursite.com/openvz/ (same with ftp).

Announcing your mirror

Final step is to announce the mirror by sending an email to mirrors@openvz.org. It should contain at least the following information:

  • physical location of your site (country, state/province, city);
  • frequency of updates;
  • URL(s) to access the mirror;
  • Email address of mirror admin (whom to contact in case of problems). It will better be some generic address (like mirroradmin@ or something), forwarded to at least a few people.

Some stats

OpenVZ download site is about 32 GB now (as of Apr 2009), so your mirror will need at least the same space. It is growing at about 1 GB a month.

The traffic for download.openvz.org is about 3T to 15T per month; it should be much lower than that for your mirror.

See also