Re: Server outage

Stuart Longland <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.everybuddy.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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[email protected] wrote:
> Thanks, that would be brilliant. How would you prefer to set it up? I'm
> afraid rsync *to* that machine isn't really an option, but if you want I
> could set up a cron job to sync the website onto your machine (making the
> connection *from* archives.wincoll.ac.uk).

I just tried using wget manually (wget -m) and unfortuately it doesn't
work that well with dynamic driven sites.  The downloads however could
be done this way.  Mind you, using something secure like sftp isn't
impossible.  (I'd rather not use plain FTP, but that's there too).

> Alternatively, we could make periodic manual copies of the site
itself, and
> you could just auto-mirror the nightly builds (produced at 4am each
> morning, with a consisent naming scheme).

I presume this is 4AM GMT?  That shouldn't be a problem, I'll tell the
machine to do it at 6:00PM (GMT+10), the easiest bet is to use wget to
mirror the page in question and download the linked files.  Perl may be
a more effecient way of doing this as it allows for intelligent
mirroring, as all we really want to mirror is the nightly tarballs.

For this, is there an actual page I need to point the perl script (or
wget) at?

The thing I need to watch here is how much this eats into our download
budget.  We're allowed a 3GB limit per month, unfortunately.  Broadband
here in Australia is extremely expensive compared with other countries.

If you want, you could also set up SFTP (or plain FTP) with access to
the HTTP accessible areas on the machine.  If our server is the only
likely user, you could also set up the firewall to only allow
connections from 202.47.55.78, therefore making it effectively closed to
the rest of the internet.

Anyway, those are just some ideas.
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