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Mirrors Requested

Posted by Ryan Finnie on August 20, 2006, 7:23 pm

Due to SourceForge problems, for 88.0 I secured primary mirroring with OSU Open Source Lab (thanks again!), and will not be using SourceForge for future releases. However, I am looking for secondary mirror sites. Here are the requirements:

Decent connectivity (DS3 or higher)
24-hour availability (occasional maintenance downtime is fine, I'm talking about excluding "available 9-5" sites)
Enough storage space and aggregate transfer for future growth, see below
Ability to rsync from the main archive at least daily

Here is how things are looking for the archive currently:

1.3GiB currently, growing at an average of 1.5GiB per year
200GiB transfer per month, should not exceed 400GiB per month in coming years
Releases quarterly on average
Mostly compressed content in archives
Current archives can be browsed at http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/finnix/; "current" is a symlink to the current release directory

If you are interested in providing mirror services, please email ryan@finnie.org. Thank you very much.