Becoming a DesktopBSD mirror

Help distributing the DesktopBSD project by setting up a mirror! A good network of mirrors helps improving download times and reducing congestion.

rsync from the following URL:

rsync://ftp.desktopbsd.net/ftp

If you want to, you can also mirror additional data from the following URLs:

• Snapshot builds (8-10 GB, updated weekly)

rsync://ftp.desktopbsd.net/snapshots

We recommend setting your mirror to be updated once a day.

Example cron job (edit crontab using crontab -e as root)

30 4 * * * /usr/local/bin/rsync -az rsync://ftp.desktopbsd.net/ftp /ftpdata/pub/DesktopBSD/

This cron job runs daily at 4:30 a.m. and uses rsync to synchronize the contents of /ftpdata/pub/DesktopBSD/ with DesktopBSD's master server. The path of the rsync executable may vary depending on your operating system, for example /usr/bin/rsync on Debian.

Please subscribe to our mirror-announce mailing list to receive information about changes and upcoming releases automatically.

Finally, please send an E-Mail with

• the URL of your mirror (if it supports FTP and HTTP, both),
• what data your mirror carries and
• (optionally) a website link and small logo (height 32px)

to ph@desktopbsd.net.

As soon as we've received your mail, we'll add your new mirror to the download page and approve your subscription to the mirror-announce mailing list.