{"id":2386,"date":"2014-05-22T10:13:29","date_gmt":"2014-05-22T14:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antipaucity.com\/?p=2386"},"modified":"2014-05-22T10:13:29","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T14:13:29","slug":"soup-to-nuts-mirroring-of-centos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=2386","title":{"rendered":"soup to nuts mirroring of centos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I run a <a href=\"http:\/\/centos.datente.com\">CentOS mirror<\/a>. Have for a couple years.<\/p>\n<p>But I never stopped to see just how long it takes to\u00a0<em>start<\/em> becoming a <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.centos.org\/HowTos\/CreatePublicMirrors\">mirror<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In case you wanted to know, I created a quick <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalocean.com\/?refcode=d197a961987a\">DO VM<\/a>\u00a0and ran the rsync mirror job yesterday. The results? At ~2.5MB\/s, it took just over 8 hours to download 79GB of <a href=\"http:\/\/centos.org\">CentOS<\/a> repositories.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/antipaucity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/rsync-centos.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2387\" src=\"http:\/\/antipaucity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/rsync-centos.png\" alt=\"rsync-centos\" width=\"606\" height=\"96\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Results came from running:<br \/>\n<code>time rsync -azHv --delete us-msync.centos.org::CentOS \/root\/centos<\/code><\/p>\n<p>Of course, if you want to mirror it &#8220;for real&#8221;, you should use &#8216;q&#8217; instead of &#8216;v&#8217; as an argument for rsync, and you should give it a better path than \/root\/centos.<\/p>\n<p>You should also setup a webserver to offer the media out to others.<\/p>\n<p>Now you know. And knowing is half the battle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I run a CentOS mirror. Have for a couple years. But I never stopped to see just how long it takes to\u00a0start becoming a mirror. In case you wanted to know, I created a quick DO VM\u00a0and ran the rsync mirror job yesterday. The results? At ~2.5MB\/s, it took just over 8 hours to download &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=2386\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">soup to nuts mirroring of centos<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[41],"tags":[166,489,646],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-2386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technical","tag-centos","tag-mirror","tag-rsync"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2386"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=2386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}