Well ideally the mirror would be updated as soon as possible after it is updated on this end. Is it possible for your machine to monitor a remote directory via SSH, then automatically mirror it to your local directory, and then to the mirror?
On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 01:55:57PM -0600, Patrick Meade wrote: > Ian Clarke wrote: > > Thanks Patrick, > > > > This is great. We need to figure out some kind of automatic mirroring > > system now - Nextgens - any ideas? > > > > Ian. > > Well, I can cobble together a personal mirroring system easy enough: > > 1. Freenet posts an http URL, be it public or just for my private > mirroring purposes. > > 2. Windows runs "wget" on a scheduled task; it downloads from the http > and drops it on a specific directory on my system. > > 3. WinSCP has a built-in command to watch a local directory and > synchronize to remote. After the file is dropped in my local directory, > WinSCP connects to my account at UW-Madison, uploading the file to my > webspace. > > 4. The file would then be available to the world at: > http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~meade/freenet/<insert filename here> > > A couple of notes: > > 1. I'm behind a cable modem at home, and the connection is pretty > reliable, so no issues with having the system run 24/7. > > 2. wget supports wildcards, so filename changes shouldn't be an issue. > > 3. As old versions get recycled out due to obsolesce, I can change the > file to a softlink to the latest version. Obviously the computer isn't > smart enough to figure out which versions are obsolete on its own, so > this part will have to be manual. (Unless of course, only the very > latest version isn't obsolete. :-)) > > If you need to have the mirroring mechanism on your side, then I'll need > to approach the CS department at the University. I don't think they'll > mind if I use my account space to promote interesting research projects > like Freenet; they will mind if I give away my account password. > > In any case, perhaps I should do both. If we have an immediate mirroring > need, I can get this system up in about an hour and we'll have a > functional mirror. After that, I can put in a request for an official > mirror from the CS department. > > Just let me know the route you'd like to take. > > Patrick Meade > meade at cs.wisc.edu > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > Tech at freenetproject.org > http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech -- Matthew J Toseland - toad at amphibian.dyndns.org Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/tech/attachments/20060127/a28065ce/attachment.pgp>
