Well, I configured the mirror for http the way you suggested. You can point to http://dl.math.wisc.edu/grml/ to get to the mirror. It downloads the files via rsync every 4 hours. But can I do just html? I'd have to get someone else to poke a hole in the firewall to do rsync and ftp. My department doesn't do its own firewall (its done by the people who maintain the network switches and stuff) so I'd have to bump that up the chain of command in order to allow connections via rsync & ftp. Not to mention the fac that I'd have to install rsync and ftp on our server. If you must have rsync and ftp, I'll have to go to a committee and get permission to do all that.

Also, I'm not sure about bandwidth information. How do I specify that?

----- Original Message ----- From: "Christian Hofstaedtler" ch@grml.org To: "John Heim" jheim@math.wisc.edu Cc: grml@ml.grml.org Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2011 4:05 PM Subject: Re: [Grml] mirror grml

• John Heim jheim@math.wisc.edu [111215 19:07]:

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I would like to set up a grml mirror site. How do I do that?

You should mirror at a fixed interval, preferably every 4 hours, using rsync from rsync://ftp-master.grml.org/grml/

Your mirror site should make the contents of this directory available via HTTP, rsync and FTP at protocol://your.mirror/grml/

Please send your mirror site name, admin email address, bandwidth information, update frequency, country/location to mirror@grml.org. Your mirror will then be added to the download.grml.org GeoIP balancer.

-ch

-- christian hofstaedtler