Re: Why are ftp mirrors out of sync?

In a few hours, vince and I will be shutting down the rsync mirror on
hub.org ... we've been spending the past couple of weeks re-doing and
re-writing *alot* of the sites ...

for instance, if you mirror www.postgresql.org, it no longer includes the
extensive mailing list archives ... that is a seperate web site/mirror ...
so you can omit that if you want to just deal with stuff like the docs ...

also, all sites are going to be 'advertised' the same as the FreeBSD
project does it:

ftp.us.postgresql.org
ftp2.us.postgresql.org
etc ...

no more individual domains ... the one problem we've been noticing over
the years is that search engines are picking up old mirrors, indexing them
and presenting them to ppl ... by moving to the FreeBSD style, when a
mirror goes offline, we can easily redirect that 'name' to a live IP, so
that ppl don't get pointers to stale, or non-existent sites ...

On Tue, 16 Oct 2001, bpalmer wrote:

> > You can find a snapshot that should be pretty durn close to 7.2beta1
> > at ftp://ftp2.us.postgresql.org/pub/dev/postgresql-snapshot.tar.gz
> > (note that at last word, other mirrors were not up to date --- if
> > the doc/TODO file doesn't contain a date in October, it's stale).
> > I think the only thing we're still waiting on is some datetime fixes
> > from Tom Lockhart...
>
> I'm a bit confused. Are you implying that the rest of the mirrors are
> broken or that ftp2 just has info that hasn't been put out for the rest of
> the mirrors yet.. I mirror every 4 hours and get:
>
> # ./rsync-postgres-ftp
> receiving file list ... done
> wrote 110 bytes read 19042 bytes 7660.80 bytes/sec
> total size is 432138525 speedup is 22563.62
>
> when connecting to hub.org and:
>
> @ERROR: Unknown module 'postgresql-ftp'
>
> when connecting to rsync.postgresql.org.
>
> Did I miss something here?
>
> - Brandon
>
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