Hello, I'm one of the administrators of GARR mirror. I'd like to share some thoughts with you.

First of all, after our main storage fault, reconstruction is in progress. We now have 817GB of data, so we are at 50% of the total content if I remember correctly.

Some critical points I see:

- we are the only mirror: maybe we could try to get some other mirror like heanet or switch. We could act as main rsync site for the other mirrors without any problem.

- number of accesses: this is becoming an issue. We get an extremly high number of connections from single IPs, especially from China. We had to implement a limit of connections per IP in order to not disrupt service not only for rainbow tables, but also for the other mirrors that we host.

It would be nice to find other mirrors and implement something like mirrorbrain (see http://mirrorbrain.org/).... which could give metalinks "for free" in addition to a central distribution point for rainbow tables...

Regards,

Enrico

hi enrico, for of all, tnx for offering this great mirroring service!

total storage for rt's is now 1.7TB at tbhost.eu where you guys mirror from.

i heard from root_ati that he was contacted by a UK university that might want to start a second mirror...

simultaneous connections are a real horror, previous tbhost provider had the same issues (ended up with only offering RT's by FTP and limiting FTP to 2 simultaneous connections, but that won't be an option for you guys i guess).
maybe just block china?

Right now we are quite happy with 3 simultaneous connections per IP. We can deliver 340 Mbps (daily average). The main bandwidth eater is ubuntu, but also rainbow tables have a consistent impact.

We did not receive particular complaints so I assume that the mirror is working well.



To be honest I thought about that, mainly because problematc client beavhiour origintaes from there. But it seems that the 3 connection per IP satisfies both sides.

I know about the UK university: I hope the found funding for a mirror.

Bye,

Enrico.

I have a Bittorrent seedbox with 4TB of storage and a 100mbit connection. I can dedicate up to 2TB and be a "bittorrent mirror"

Hi All,
have just successfully backed up all tables now, I have however left out the rarred index directories.
Do you need me to back these up as well?
How often do you think I should sync my backup with the garr site?

regards
kerravon