<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 3:25 AM, Kahunapule Michael Johnson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kahunapule@mpj.cx">kahunapule@mpj.cx</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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I think that either proxies or mirrors can improve the probability
of access from creative access countries. The primary difference is
that a mirror increases the effective available download bandwidth
while a proxy does not, unless it is a caching proxy. The main issue
with mirrors is if they are periodically updated to the contents of
the master site (which is good) or just mirrored once with content
that eventually goes stale (which is not as good). If, like Ubuntu
archive mirrors, all mirrors use rsync in a specific manner to
update every 6 hours, then all archives contain the exact same data.
I would rather see regularly-updated mirrors or caching proxies than
simple proxies, just to get the added benefit of more capacity (and
therefore more resistance to DOS attacks as well as more ability to
distribute Scriptures to more people in a given time).<br></div></blockquote><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"><br>Not having access to rsync with the main Crosswire site, to avoid fragmentation between the main site, and the mirror I emulated rsync via FTP using the following in a cron job (which was as close as I could get):<br>
<br>/usr/bin/wget -nH -np -m --passive-ftp --user=anonymous --password=<a href="mailto:mirror@user.com">mirror@user.com</a> <a href="ftp://ftp.crosswire.org/pub/sword/raw">ftp://ftp.crosswire.org/pub/sword/raw</a><br><br>
When something at the main site changed, it was replicated at the mirror, if nothing changed, nothing was copies. Nothing that existed on the mirror differed from what was on the main sites (so the purpose was to have an exact copy).<br>
<br>I provide this only to fill in technical details of how I was 'mirroring' the main site, not to support some particular position or another.<br><br>~Andrew<br></div></div>