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eix-sync&&emerge
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I have a problem with the local arch repos like once a month when i do a Syu , packages that are in the repo DB arnt in the repo and all of that its rather annoying , i normaly just switch over to a official mirror and switch back at a latter stage
#Server = ftp://ftp.leg.uct.ac.za/pub/linux/arch/$repo/os/x86_64 << is the worst
#Server = ftp://ftp.leg.uct.ac.za/pub/linux/arch/$repo/os/x86_64 << is the worst
I'm on testing arch so I cannot use any of the other mirrors in SA since only mirrors.ac.za are the only local server that has testing. I'm burning to get this resolved since KDE 4.4 hit testing this Monday and I'm still waiting for the local servers to catch up.
eix-sync&&emerge
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Hehe i was testing for awhile but i ran into some readline issue awhile ago desided to play it safe , i dont use kde so i didnt know about that , but i thought it had its own repo like kde-unstable or somthing
, i dont use kde so i didnt know about that , but i thought it had its own repo like kde-unstable or somthingI mirror the Ubuntu repos from mirror.ac.za and I've noticed this on occasion too. I usually just switch to another mirror like ftp.is.co.za for a few days while they catch up. Looks like ftp.is.co.za also has the arch testing repo BTW.
I think the synchronisation status message on www.mirror.ac.za isn't much to go by either, cos it probably just means the script ran, not necessarily that it ran to completion.
I think the synchronisation status message on www.mirror.ac.za isn't much to go by either, cos it probably just means the script ran, not necessarily that it ran to completion.
I'm new to Arch and still a bit confused. No wonder I have not been able to update!
Anyway, with my 384kbps connection, I have never really noticed a difference in speed between a mirror in NZ and one in ZA. Whether it comes from Helsinki or Pretoria, it usually comes at max 39K/s (if I'm lucky).
I think I'll stick with the overseas mirrors until I get one of those "local is cheaper" packages. When/if that happens, I'll just have to make peace with the fact that I will often have to be a bit "behind"...
Anyway, with my 384kbps connection, I have never really noticed a difference in speed between a mirror in NZ and one in ZA. Whether it comes from Helsinki or Pretoria, it usually comes at max 39K/s (if I'm lucky).
I think I'll stick with the overseas mirrors until I get one of those "local is cheaper" packages. When/if that happens, I'll just have to make peace with the fact that I will often have to be a bit "behind"...
DrJohnZoidberg
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I love my international / local split in Ubuntu. Saving me a lot on bandwidth as all my updates are local as well as about 90% of YouTube's streaming. If you have access to your router, set it up using bridged mode and dial in with PPPOE - there is a very detailed post somewhere on the forums to get the traffic split working. Once its setup you don't have to change anything, my connections are super stable - even been resetting my router a lot (waiting for 4MB upgrade) and it just picks up where it left off.
eix-sync&&emerge
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http://www.archlinux.org/news/482/ i think this might be one of the problems
i actually almost always use http links (both local and international). my experience is that the download speeds are faster
AndrewAlston
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Hi All,
Ok first of all, I'm not going to make any excuses here, and will openly admit that mirror.ac.za has slipped up a coupla times in the last few months. A lot of this was due to a MAJOR system failure a few months back that we never totally recovered from (in which we lost almost 8 terabytes of data)
However, its not acceptable that a service as public and as utilized as this one has slipped and hence we are taking some proactive steps to resolve this issue.
Firstly, we have brought in a third person (He uses the nick Ambo on here) to help admin the system, and we are confident more human capacity will help reduce system problems in the future and allow us to respond to issues faster.
Secondly, to avoid another major system failure, the largest of the arrays has been configured to raid-6 with hot spare, from the old raid-5 config. This gives us additional disk redundancy.
Thirdly, we are looking at bringing in another front end system to front the backend disk systems, to ensure that on front end system failure there is redundancy there. We are also looking at bringing in another 3 SAN's which will be migrated from another setup we used to run and these will run in a form of software raid across the SAN's, again, protecting us from system failures.
Fourth, we are currently reviewing every sync script and going through all the sync logs to see if we can see if there are any major synchronization problems and modify the uplink sources as needed. I've also asked Ambo to improve the systems functionality that alerts us on synchronization failures so we pick these up faster.
Lastly, on the specific issues mentioned. I've rectified the FreeBSD problems and the arch linux issues that were seen are currently being rectified by a resynch that is running as we speak.
If you guys do have problems with the mirror.ac.za service though, please, do not hesitate to drop me or ambo a note and we will take a look at rectifying the problem as fast as possible.
Ok first of all, I'm not going to make any excuses here, and will openly admit that mirror.ac.za has slipped up a coupla times in the last few months. A lot of this was due to a MAJOR system failure a few months back that we never totally recovered from (in which we lost almost 8 terabytes of data)
However, its not acceptable that a service as public and as utilized as this one has slipped and hence we are taking some proactive steps to resolve this issue.
Firstly, we have brought in a third person (He uses the nick Ambo on here) to help admin the system, and we are confident more human capacity will help reduce system problems in the future and allow us to respond to issues faster.
Secondly, to avoid another major system failure, the largest of the arrays has been configured to raid-6 with hot spare, from the old raid-5 config. This gives us additional disk redundancy.
Thirdly, we are looking at bringing in another front end system to front the backend disk systems, to ensure that on front end system failure there is redundancy there. We are also looking at bringing in another 3 SAN's which will be migrated from another setup we used to run and these will run in a form of software raid across the SAN's, again, protecting us from system failures.
Fourth, we are currently reviewing every sync script and going through all the sync logs to see if we can see if there are any major synchronization problems and modify the uplink sources as needed. I've also asked Ambo to improve the systems functionality that alerts us on synchronization failures so we pick these up faster.
Lastly, on the specific issues mentioned. I've rectified the FreeBSD problems and the arch linux issues that were seen are currently being rectified by a resynch that is running as we speak.
If you guys do have problems with the mirror.ac.za service though, please, do not hesitate to drop me or ambo a note and we will take a look at rectifying the problem as fast as possible.
Fedora mirror still outdated
Hello
I'm still having problems with the Fedora mirror at mirror.ac.za, which hasn't been synced since 7 February. I sent an email to admin@mirror.ac.za, but no word yet.
Can anybody help?
Cheers
Albert
Hello
I'm still having problems with the Fedora mirror at mirror.ac.za, which hasn't been synced since 7 February. I sent an email to admin@mirror.ac.za, but no word yet.
Can anybody help?
Cheers
Albert
The_Unbeliever
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Get an uncapped account from Mweb for a month or two and download all the Linux repo's...
Thanks for the advice. Eh.
It seems mirror.ac.za doesn't like email from Gmail...
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