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| =Mirroring =
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| == Introduction ==
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| The most common nocturnal activity of an engineering student, particularly when exams are approaching, is to fire up a first person shooter game. Now suppose, the geek in you, fed up with all the trivialities a text book has to offer, decide to challenge your friend to a deadly dual of OpenAreana. According to murphy's law, he won't have it installed, and the Internet connection will go down at the very moment. Now being a geek, though you are sure the world is conspiring against you, you won't give up so easily, would you? You will decide to see the end of it by creating a local repository of the Fedora, so that every package is ready to serve when you want them. Of course you will be able to do it yourself, but I consider it my duty to make it easier so to allow you to take up more important duties like running a OpenArena server.
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| Now, having read so far, if you are not entirely sure what this is all about, let me tell you: It is about mirroring Fedora repositories. According to wikipedia, '''In computing, a mirror is an exact copy of a data set. On the Internet, a mirror site is an exact copy of another Internet site.''' When you try to install a new package into your Fedora Installation, either via packagekit or via yum, what they basically do is fetch the packages from an Internet site along with the libraries required for it and install it on your computer. Now softwares like OpenOffice or OpenArena are very big in size and along with all the dependencies, that is the other softwares on which this particular software depends, may be in a order of hundreds of Megabits.
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| Now consider a simple calculation, if your hostel or organisation has 100 users and each downloads OpenOffice separately, it will take around 100x150 = 15000Mb = Apprx.14.5Gbs of bandwidth. If you consider even a normal usage senario, where users occationally install new softwares and updates there system, it can easily go upto Terabite level.
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| In countries like India, where bandwidth is a costly commodity, lack of bandwidth can easily play a spoilsport to the advent of Free Software.
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| == Why mirror it? ==
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| == Size estimate. ==
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| == What do I mirror? ==
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| == How? ==
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| == Hardware requisite ==
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| == Software requisite - apache/vsftpd/rsync ==
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| == Test your download speed ==
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| == Clean the board (Setup your System) ==
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| == Setup webserver and ftp server ==
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| == Start syncing ==
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| == When synced, put in a cron job ==
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| == Run report mirror ==
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| == Setup firewall ==
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| == Monitor regularly ==
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| == Build up Stats ==
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