Re: [Madwifi-users] Re: [Madwifi-devel] madwifi.org mirror
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From: Alvin O. <alvin@Mail.Linux-Consulting.com> - 2005-12-14 10:03:47
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hi ya On Wed, 14 Dec 2005, Michael Renzmann wrote: > Providing off-site backups is quite easy, but that doesn't help users of > MadWifi in case the main site is down. It won't allow access to the > online documentation, it won't allow access to the source, and so on. if the main site is down ... - users can still get the latest tarball that was mirrored if you want developers to start using the "mirrors for work" they may need to resync and double check their local pc agianst the mirror if they won't be using the mirror to continue to do work, than there's no issue with mirroring files associated with developers > So, yes, I'm talking of functional mirrors, which at least offer > read-only access to the wiki content as well as the snapshot tarballs. as you say earlier, that is trivial with rsync ... > It would be nice if mirrors also provided a read-only mirror of the > Subversion repository, but that is no must. i guess i'm not seeing the problem of mirroring databases... - what kind of databases is a problem too, single file vs hierarchy tree of files -------- you will always only get the latest files at the time of the mirror .. and if files are changing while mirroring is occuring, than there's always a problem c ya alvin |