If someone can point me in the direction of some details on how to set
up a mirror on a unix machine, I can mirror minnow.

Alternatively, if people think that there is a better way then
mirroring, I can offer server space for it.

Cheers,

Russell

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Russell Allen

russell.allen at firebirdmedia.com

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Doug Way <dway at riskmetrics.com> wrote:
> 
> Jay Carlson wrote:
> > 
> > I'd go back and compare to the swiki benchmark numbers but
> > minnow is down again.  (Is there some way I can help with minnow stability?
> > Donate hardware? Colocation?)
> 
> Probably the most helpful thing someone could do at this point would be
> to host a read-only mirror of the swiki, updated nightly or so.  I would
> offer but I don't have a 24/7 server handy. :)
> 
> I've played around with some freeware mirroring software on Windows
> which works pretty well.  (I have a 2-week-old mirror of the Swiki
> sitting on my hard drive which comes in handy on occasion.)  I'm sure
> there are similar mirroring utilities available on Unix/Linux/Mac.  Or,
> one could write shell scripts to do this (or maybe a Squeak script)...
> 
> (I wonder if minnow is less stable lately because it handles a lot more
> traffic than it used to in the early days?)
> 
> - Doug Way
>   dway at riskmetrics.com