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All you need is a web server with enough bandwidth to serve the files. To set up a new mirror, the site administrator needs to:
 
All you need is a web server with enough bandwidth to serve the files. To set up a new mirror, the site administrator needs to:
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* Set up rsync job to synchronize a copy of the files on http://download.sugarlabs.org onto their local system.  For example copy it into ''/rsync/download.suarlabs.org/'':
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* First lets make a directory to store the data:
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  mkdir /rsync
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  mkdir /rsync/download.sugarlabs.org
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* Then lets use rsync to download the data (warning: takes a long time)
    
   rsync -avzh rsync://download.sugarlabs.org/pub /rsync/download.sugarlabs.org
 
   rsync -avzh rsync://download.sugarlabs.org/pub /rsync/download.sugarlabs.org
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* You can schedule it daily or more frequently, but please don't sync more often than once per hour. For example, use cron to re-sync every 2 hours (on linux):
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* Save the rsync command as a shell script and make it executable:
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  echo "rsync -avzh rsync://download.sugarlabs.org/pub /rsync/download.sugarlabs.org" > /rsync/download.sugarlabs.org/sync.sh
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  chmod 774 /rsync/download.sugarlabs.org/sync.sh
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   echo "0 */2 * * * rsync -avzh rsync://download.sugarlabs.org/pub /rsync/download.sugarlabs.org" > asloSyncCronJob.txt
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* Then lets make this to sync automatically.  We can use a cron job to do that.  You could make sync every 2 hours:
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   echo "0 */2 * * * /rsync/download.sugarlabs.org/sync.sh" > asloSyncCronJob.txt
 
   crontab asloSyncCronJob.txt
 
   crontab asloSyncCronJob.txt
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* Publish the files via HTTP and -- if possible -- rsync. Rsync allows for efficient [http://www.mirrorbrain.org/features/#mirror-monitoring mirror monitoring] (scanning). FTP is less efficient, but still preferred over an HTTP-only mirror.
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If you don't want it to sync every 2 hours, have a look at [https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-cron-to-automate-tasks-on-a-vps a cron tutorial] to change that value.
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* Publish the files via HTTP.  Look at your http server documentation on how to do that.  You could set up a virtual host to serve these files: [https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-nginx-server-blocks-virtual-hosts-on-ubuntu-14-04-lts in nginx] [https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-apache-virtual-hosts-on-ubuntu-12-04-lts in apache]
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* Setup a rsync mirror so we can view the status of your mirror.  To do so, create a rsyncd.conf file and open it:
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  sudo nano rsyncd.conf
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Then insert the following config:
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  log file = /rsync/log
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  [sugarlabs]
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      path = /rsync/download.sugarlabs.org
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      comment = PUT SOME INFORMATION HERE - LIKE A MOTD
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      read only = true
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      list = yes
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Save and quit nano.  Then start rsyncd so it can serve your files:
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  rsync --daemon --config=/etc/rsyncd.conf
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* Alert the [[Infrastructure_Team/Contacts|Sugar Labs System Administrators]] that they would like their mirror into rotation, including the following information in the request:
 
* Alert the [[Infrastructure_Team/Contacts|Sugar Labs System Administrators]] that they would like their mirror into rotation, including the following information in the request:
 
** Name and URL of the mirror operator (e.g. organization)
 
** Name and URL of the mirror operator (e.g. organization)
 
** Name and email address of the administrative contact
 
** Name and email address of the administrative contact
 
** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2 ISO 3166-1 alpha-2] country code of the server location
 
** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2 ISO 3166-1 alpha-2] country code of the server location
** HTTP base URL of the files on the mirror (typically http://mirrors.example.org/sugarlabs/)
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** HTTP base URL of the files on the mirror (typically http://mirrors.example.org/sugarlabs/)
 
** rsync base URL of the files on the mirror (typically rsync://mirrors.example.org/sugarlabs/)
 
** rsync base URL of the files on the mirror (typically rsync://mirrors.example.org/sugarlabs/)
  

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