Mirrors(?) for local repo

[Frank Murphy]

How do you know the correct mirrors for rsync a local repo.
Is it by the biggest bandwidth one chooses,
or just the closest geographically?

Frank

[David]

Frank Murphy wrote:
> How do you know the correct mirrors for rsync a local repo.
> Is it by the biggest bandwidth one chooses,
> or just the closest geographically?

Closest does not necessarily mean 'fastest'. And not all mirrors support rsync.

[Frank Murphy]

On Sun, 2008-06-22 at 08:07 -0400, David Boles wrote:
> Frank Murphy wrote:
> > How do you know the correct mirrors for rsync a local repo.
> > Is it by the biggest bandwidth one chooses,
> > or just the closest geographically?
>
> Closest does not necessarily mean 'fastest'. And not all mirrors support rsync.

I'm looking at the mirrors page, put how to choose?

Frank

[David]

Frank Murphy wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-06-22 at 08:07 -0400, David Boles wrote:
> > Frank Murphy wrote:
> > > How do you know the correct mirrors for rsync a local repo.
> > > Is it by the biggest bandwidth one chooses,
> > > or just the closest geographically?
> >
> > Closest does not necessarily mean 'fastest'. And not all mirrors support rsync.
>
> I'm looking at the mirrors page, put how to choose?

Look at the sites that list rsync and then look at the ones that have the 
highest bandwidth. Then read the comments on the far right.

The FedoraUnity Fedora 9 everything spins are 24 CDs or 4 DVDs. So if that is 
what you intend to do you have a lot to download. I still don't understand why.

You do understand how rsync works correct? The first time you download 
*everything* you will do just that. Download *everything*. And since the 
'everything' folder does not change you will not get anything new from there.

The only folder that would change for you is the Fedora 9 updates folder.

[Frank Murphy]

On Sun, 2008-06-22 at 08:32 -0400, David Boles wrote:
> Frank Murphy wrote:
> > On Sun, 2008-06-22 at 08:07 -0400, David Boles wrote:
> > > Frank Murphy wrote:
> > > > How do you know the correct mirrors for rsync a local repo.
> > > > Is it by the biggest bandwidth one chooses,
> > > > or just the closest geographically?
> > >
> > > Closest does not necessarily mean 'fastest'. And not all mirrors support rsync.
> >
> > I'm looking at the mirrors page, put how to choose?
>
> Look at the sites that list rsync and then look at the ones that have the 
> highest bandwidth. Then read the comments on the far right.
>
> The FedoraUnity Fedora 9 everything spins are 24 CDs or 4 DVDs. So if that is 
> what you intend to do you have a lot to download. I still don't understand why.
>
> You do understand how rsync works correct? The first time you download 
> *everything* you will do just that. Download *everything*. And since the 
> 'everything' folder does not change you will not get anything new from there.
>
> The only folder that would change for you is the Fedora 9 updates folder.

I'm looking into rsync on the centos list (which I've joined) to get
some pointers in case it's a tweaked verison for it. 
To use maybe excludes if possible for packages that would never be in
use here (home-lan).

Frank

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 13:13:29 +0100,
  Frank Murphy  wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-06-22 at 08:07 -0400, David Boles wrote:
> > Frank Murphy wrote:
> > > How do you know the correct mirrors for rsync a local repo.
> > > Is it by the biggest bandwidth one chooses,
> > > or just the closest geographically?
> >
> > Closest does not necessarily mean 'fastest'. And not all mirrors support rsync.
>
> I'm looking at the mirrors page, put how to choose?

That depends on what you need. First off they need to mirroring what you
need. The various mirrors mirror different subsets of Fedora stuff.
You also may care about how up to date the mirrors are. Some are better
than daily, others seem to do updates on the order of weekly.
Also you may care about bandwidth if you need downloads to occur rapidly.
You also probably want to get data from a mirror that is geographicly close
as that is likely to be more efficient. Another consideration is using
internet2. If you are at an internet2 site, you probably want to pull from
a mirror on internet2.
And lastly, mirrors provide data by rsync, ftp and/or http, but many only
provide data via a subset of those protocols.

[Mike Chambers]

On Sun, 2008-06-22 at 12:55 +0100, Frank Murphy wrote:
> How do you know the correct mirrors for rsync a local repo.
> Is it by the biggest bandwidth one chooses,
> or just the closest geographically?

Hi Frank,

What I did was go through all the mirrored sites (at least the ones
geographically closer, as in north america, south america, etc..) and
tried rsync to see which ones allowed it.  Then those that did, I just
did a quick test to see how fast the downloads were (of course, they
could be faster or slower at different times, but you get an idea).
Once you have the fastest, setup your script/whatever to use that mirror
and start your download.  If your going to rsync updates/testing/rawhide
then you might want to check into that mirror or another (email the
admins of the server) and see how often they sync up so you can set
yours around that.