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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:
* 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/'':
* First lets make a directory to store the data:
mkdir /rsync
mkdir /rsync/download.sugarlabs.org
* 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
* 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):
* Save the rsync command as a shell script and make it executable:
echo "rsync -avzh rsync://download.sugarlabs.org/pub /rsync/download.sugarlabs.org" > /rsync/download.sugarlabs.org/sync.sh
chmod 774 /rsync/download.sugarlabs.org/sync.sh
echo "0 */2 * * * rsync -avzh rsync://download.sugarlabs.org/pub /rsync/download.sugarlabs.org" > asloSyncCronJob.txt
* Then lets make this to sync automatically. We can use a cron job to do that. You could make sync every 2 hours:
echo "0 */2 * * * /rsync/download.sugarlabs.org/sync.sh" > asloSyncCronJob.txt
crontab asloSyncCronJob.txt
crontab asloSyncCronJob.txt
* 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.
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.
* 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]
* Setup a rsync mirror so we can view the status of your mirror. To do so, create a rsyncd.conf file and open it:
sudo nano rsyncd.conf
Then insert the following config:
log file = /rsync/log
[sugarlabs]
path = /rsync/download.sugarlabs.org
comment = PUT SOME INFORMATION HERE - LIKE A MOTD
read only = true
list = yes
Save and quit nano. Then start rsyncd so it can serve your files:
rsync --daemon --config=/etc/rsyncd.conf
* 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/)
** 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/)