[WEB4LIB] mirror sites

[Mark Pecaut]

Depends on what you mean by `mirror'.  Do you want to provide a mirror
for an existing site in a different domain, similiar to the mirrors
for http://www.samba.org ?  Or do you have a very popular webserver
and you want to balance the load with another machine?  Or you want
to do something different?

If all you need to do is setup a mirror for another site, use a 
program like rsync ( http://rsync.samba.org/ ) to syncronize
the content every hour or so and give your mirror an alias that is
meaningful. You don't need to do any DNS tricks here, just give
the main site the url to the mirrored content.

If this isn't what you want to do, please give more detail about
what you want to accomplish.

-Mark

On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 05:08:54AM -0800, Yvonne Reynolds wrote:
> Hi,
> I hope someone can help.. we are considering setting up a mirror site  - something I know very little about  
> 
> technically what is involved here?  
> Does one have to register a separate domain name for the mirror site.  Or do you just list a separate set of DNS (our site has a set of 2 DNS currently) under the same domain name and this second set serves the mirror site?   I am sure it must be a bit more complicated than this.
> 
> 
> Does anyone know of a good internet reference on setting up mirror sites?
> 
> thanks in advance.
> Yvonne
> 
> 
> Yvonne Reynolds
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> National Botanical Institute
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> Tel +27 21 799 8712
> Fax +27 762 0646
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