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+# $FreeBSD$
+
+DOC?= article
+
+FORMATS?= html
+
+INSTALL_COMPRESSED?=gz
+INSTALL_ONLY_COMPRESSED?=
+
+JADEFLAGS+=	-V %generate-article-toc%
+
+SRCS= article.sgml
+
+DOC_PREFIX?= ${.CURDIR}/../../..
+
+.include "${DOC_PREFIX}/share/mk/doc.project.mk"
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+<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//DTD DocBook V4.1-Based Extension//EN" [
+<!ENTITY % man PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//ENTITIES DocBook Manual Page Entities//EN">
+%man;
+<!ENTITY % authors PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//ENTITIES DocBook Author Entities//EN">
+%authors;
+<!ENTITY % not.published "IGNORE">
+]>
+
+<article>
+  <articleinfo>
+    <title>Mirroring FreeBSD</title>
+    <pubdate>$FreeBSD$</pubdate>
+    <authorgroup>
+      <author>
+        <firstname>Jun</firstname>
+        <surname>Kuriyama</surname>
+        <affiliation>
+          <address><email>kuriyama@FreeBSD.org</email></address>
+        </affiliation>
+      </author>
+      <author>
+        <firstname>Valentino</firstname>  
+        <surname>Vaschetto</surname>
+        <affiliation>
+          <address><email>logo@FreeBSD.org</email></address>                             
+        </affiliation>
+      </author>
+    </authorgroup>
+    <abstract>
+      <para>An in-progress article on how to mirror FreeBSD, aimed at
+        hub administrators</para>
+    </abstract>
+  </articleinfo>
+
+  <sect1 id="mirror-howtomirror">
+    <title>How to mirror FreeBSD</title>
+    <sect2 id="mirror-ftp">
+      <title>FTP</title>
+      <para>At this time (just before 4.5-RELEASE), full mirror
+        requires 65GB disk space. For safety, 70-80GB will be
+        required</para>
+      <para>An anonymous ftp mirror requires network bandwidth.
+        It is not encouraged if your site does not have enough
+        spare bandwidth</para>
+      <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Choose favorite ftp mirror tool (such as
+          <port>ftp/mirror</port>, <port>ftp/ftpmirror</port>
+          , <port>ftp/spegla</port> and so on.)</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Select upstream. First candidate is your
+          local mirror (ftpX.XX.FreeBSD.org). If there is no
+          official mirror in your country, use ftpX.FreeBSD.org
+          instead. (X stands for a number, and XX stands for
+          your local country code)</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Setting up your mirror configuration.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+    </sect2>
+    <sect2 id="mirror-cvsup">
+      <title>CVSup</title>
+      <para>At this time (01/29/2002), full CVSup mirror requires
+        3GB disk space. For safety, 4-5GB will be required.</para>
+      <para>Public CVSup mirror requires high disk activity. It
+        is encouraged to use RAID-0 or RAID-5.</para>
+      <para>You can setting up CVSup mirror configuration by
+        <port>net/cvsup-mirror</port> port.</para>
+      <para>Upstream selection is same as ftp. First candidate is
+        your local CVSup mirror (ftp?.??.FreeBSD.org). Next is
+        ftp?.FreeBSD.org.</para>
+    </sect2>
+    <sect2 id="mirror-www">
+      <title>WWW</title>
+      <para>At this time (01/29/2002), full www mirror requires
+        150MB disk space. For safety, 200MB will be required</para>
+    </sect2>
+  </sect1>
+
+  <sect1 id="mirror-becomingofficial">
+    <title>How to become an official FreeBSD mirror site</title>
+    <para>Check your country subdomain is exist or not. If not,
+      configure nameserver appropriately and then send your
+      details to <email>hostmaster@FreeBSD.org</email>. If exists,
+      contact hostmaster of your country subdomain. Hostmaster of
+      subdomain is listed in the
+      <ulink url="http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html">
+      Handbook</ulink>.</para>
+    <para>Official mirrors may get access to <emphasis>master
+      </emphasis>sites:</para>
+    <itemizedlist>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>ftp-master.FreeBSD.org: <email>peter@FreeBSD.org</email></para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>cvsup-master.FreeBSD.org: <email>jdp@FreeBSD.org</email></para>
+      </listitem>
+    </itemizedlist>
+    <sect2 id="mirror-ftpmaster">
+      <title>About ftp-master.FreeBSD.org</title>
+      <para>ftp-master.FreeBSD.org provides rsync and CVSup
+        access rather in addition to ftp protocol.</para>
+      <para>Mirrors should be encouraged to also allow rsync
+        access for the FTP contents, especially Tier-1 mirrors.</para>
+    </sect2>
+    <sect2 id="mirror-cvsupmaster">
+      <title>About cvsup-master.FreeBSD.org</title>
+      <para>Sample supfile for cvsup-master:</para>
+      <programlisting>*default host=ftp-master.FreeBSD.org
+*default base=/ftp-master
+*default prefix=/ftp-master/pub
+*default delete use-rel-suffix
+
+FreeBSD-archive         release=all preserve</programlisting>
+    </sect2>
+  </sect1>
+</article>
+
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