Mirror is an open source python application for mirror site (e.g. mirror.bjtu.edu.cn) to sync files from upstreams (it uses rsync internally), it actually works like a cron, but has some differences. It has been served for mirror.bjtu.edu.cn with more than 40 rsync tasks.

You are welcome to send comments, patches and any others to github or to @idealities.

Homepage: http://mirror.bjtu.edu.cn

• Shang Yuanchun
• Bob Gao

For contributors and past developers see: AUTHORS

Build and install by running:

python setup.py build
sudo python setup.py install

Or to a custom directory:

sudo python setup.py install --root=/tmp

After that, you are going to set up environment, you are encouraged to add a specific user to run mirrord, here we suppose the username is mirror and its home directory is /home/mirror.

Make necessary directories:

sudo mkdir /var/log/mirrord /var/log/rsync
sudo chown mirror:mirror /var/log/mirrord /var/log/rsync
mkdir ~/.config/mirror
cp config/mirror.ini ~/.config/mirror/

Now you can edit mirror.ini to fit your needs and run:

mirrord

and that's done. Also you can use man mirrord to read documents.

Also a command mirror is provided, if mirrord is running, you can run:

mirror -l

to show the current task queue.

Email: [email protected]

• It's simple and easy to add a mirror
• You can set a priorty for each mirror, from 1 to 10, 1 is highest
• And scheduler will schedule a task depending on current conditions
• You can also set a timeout for each mirror
• Support for two stage syncing (for ubuntu, debian)
• You can also use it as another cron...