Bert Freudenberg <bert at impara.de> wrote:
[SNIP]
> > We should probably look into getting a backup SM server going 
> > somewhere, since SM is now accessed by the update stream.  The update 
> > stream has two servers (SqF and gsug.org), so SM probably should have 
> > backup as well...
> 
> Just give me an FTP accessible directory for all SM packages so that I 
> can set up a mirror for them at GSUG. When loading a package, the 
> system knows the full URL, right? So mirroring only the packages should 
> work, provided the SM loader looks in the backup location, too.
> 
> Additionally, a notification email would be nice to get whenever a new 
> package version was added (to keep the mirror latency low).

Hmm. I think this would be the "best" way to set up a working mirror:

1. Set up a slave map that has no login (readonly web UI) and that does
"loadUpdates" once per 10 minutes or whatever. If there are no new
changes it is just a very small HTTP GET request. If the slave server is
a Debian machine I already have init.d scripts etc.

2. Use rsync to synch the file areas on the master server to the slave.

We can then set up how many of these readonly mirrors as we like. If
this sounds good I can get the needed changes for this to work (the
package download mechanism must be tweaked to be able to test multiple
locations etc) and write down a small howto for it ASAP.

> - Bert -

regards, Göran