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The current list of available mirrors is available at http://mirrors.sugarlabs.org/

== Considerations ==

=== Bandwidth ===

To run a mirror you need a lot of bandwidth! You should look at [http://stats.sugarlabs.org/download.sugarlabs.org/ the total bandwidth used by all the mirrors].

If you have trouble with bandwidth, you should look at [http://www.cloudflare.com CloudFlare].

=== HDD Space ===

Hosting a mirror takes a lot of space. If you don't have a lot of space you can only choose to mirror some parts. For example exclude all directories but the activities (~13gb):

rsync -avzh rsync://download.sugarlabs.org/pub --exclude 'dextrose' --exclude 'hexoquinasa' --exclude 'images' --exclude 'sources' --exclude 'docs' --exclude 'packages' --exclude 'soas' /rsync/download.sugarlabs.org

== Setting up a new mirror ==

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* Scan and enable the mirror:

sudo -u mirrorbrain mb scan -e <mirror name>

* Export the list of mirrors for mirmon (a hourly cronjob does this, but if you don't want to wait...):

mb export --format=mirmon-apache | sudo -u mirrorbrain tee /srv/mirrorbrain/mirmon/mirrorlist-export

* Finally, re-run mirmon to ensure it can check the health of the mirror (this is also done by a cronjob, but our patience is very short):

sudo -u mirrorbrain mirmon -v -get all -c /etc/mirmon.conf

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 The current list of available mirrors is available at http://mirrors.sugarlabs.org/
+== Considerations ==
+=== Bandwidth ===
+To run a mirror you need a lot of bandwidth!  You should look at [http://stats.sugarlabs.org/download.sugarlabs.org/ the total bandwidth used by all the mirrors].
+If you have trouble with bandwidth, you should look at [http://www.cloudflare.com CloudFlare].
+=== HDD Space ===
+Hosting a mirror takes a lot of space.  If you don't have a lot of space you can only choose to mirror some parts.  For example exclude all directories but the activities (~13gb):
+  rsync -avzh rsync://download.sugarlabs.org/pub --exclude 'dextrose' --exclude 'hexoquinasa' --exclude 'images' --exclude 'sources' --exclude 'docs' --exclude 'packages' --exclude 'soas' /rsync/download.sugarlabs.org
 == Setting up a new mirror ==
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 * Scan and enable the mirror:
   sudo -u mirrorbrain mb scan -e <mirror name>
+* Export the list of mirrors for mirmon (a hourly cronjob does this, but if you don't want to wait...):
+ mb export --format=mirmon-apache | sudo -u mirrorbrain tee /srv/mirrorbrain/mirmon/mirrorlist-export
+* Finally, re-run mirmon to ensure it can check the health of the mirror (this is also done by a cronjob, but our patience is very short):
+ sudo -u mirrorbrain mirmon -v -get all -c /etc/mirmon.conf