[mirror-admin] Mirror Prep Consensus?

[Carlos Carvalho]

C.M. Connelly (cmc at math.hmc.edu) wrote on 8 September 2008 16:06:
 >Is there a consensus on what preparatory work mirror admins could
 >do to make syncing the new content easier?  In particular, it
 >sounds like creating local copies of some directories prior to
 >syncing would be A Good Thing (tm), but it isn't entirely clear to
 >me from the messages and poking around on my (enchilada) mirror
 >exactly which directories should be duplicated to make everything
 >work properly.

You can start with something like "for i in *; do cp -a $i $i.newkey; done"
in linux/updates/[89]. There are others but they seem to not be in the
masters yet.

This is the efficiency for updates/9:

Literal data: 13.49G bytes
Matched data: 29.81G bytes

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