You can (and are encouraged to) mirror the FreeBSD web pages on -www.freebsd.org. To do this, you need to obtain and install -a program called rsync on your web server. Rsync is a revolutionary -tree synchronising program written by Andrew Tridgell and Paul Mackerras -at the Australian National University. It was modified to work in an -unprivileged client-server mode by Warren Toomey.
+You can (and are encouraged to) mirror the FreeBSD web pages +www.freebsd.org. -
To build and install it, do the following:
- % cd /usr/ports/net/rsync - % make all install - % rehash (for csh users) + # cd /usr/ports/net/cvsup-bin + # make all install clean-
If you keep your mirrored FreeBSD web pages in the directory -/usr/FreeBSD-mirror/data and are owned by the user `fred', then +/usr/FreeBSD-mirror and are owned by the user `fred', then run the following command as user `fred':
- % rsync --client -avz www.freebsd.org:www /usr/FreeBSD-mirror/data + $ cvsup supfile-www-
This will mirror the FreeBSD web pages into /usr/FreeBSD-mirror/data. -You can install this into fred's crontab, so that it runs once a -day. The pages on www.freebsd.org are updated daily at about 4:30am -California time.
- -If you do not wish to use rsync for some reason, you can also use -one of the popular FTP mirror utilities to simply mirror -the -central FTP site's copy. - -
There are several gzipped tar files kept in the web hierarchy at -www.freebsd.org. Rsync does not deal with these very well; it -must transmit each tar file if it is changed. Because these files can -easily be created locally, you can get rsync to exclude -them. To do this, run the following command as user `fred':
- +The file supfile-www contain:- % rsync --client -avz --exclude '*.tar.gz' www.freebsd.org:www /usr/FreeBSD-mirror/data + *default host=cvsup.FreeBSD.org + *default prefix=/usr/FreeBSD-mirror + *default base=/usr/local/etc/cvsup + www release=current delete use-rel-suffix compress-
You should see a dramatic improvement in rsync's -performance. (A better mechanism for dealing with the tar files needs -to be established.)
+This will mirror the FreeBSD web pages into +/usr/FreeBSD-mirror. You can install this into fred's +crontab, so that it runs once a day. The pages on www.freebsd.org are +updated daily at about 4:30am California time.
-Now that you can use rsync, I would suggest you read the -following files:
- -If you have any questions about rsync, please pass them on to the -authors, or join the rsync mailing list (both described in the -README).
+See the CVSup introduction in the +handbook. FreeBSD Internal Home &footer;