ANNOUNCE: Constuff Mirroring on archives.conlang.info

Hi!

Rick Harrison writes:
> On Sun, 29 Jun 2008 17:34:17 -0400, li_sasxsek@NUTTER.NET wrote:
>
>>I unsubscribed from the Yahoo group after it became nothing but
>>spambait but still have an interest in Vorlin so I wouldn't mind
>>"hanging on" to the materials, and with permission may even
>>mirror what's out there should the existing sites disappear for
>>some reason.
>
> tak. Consider this message my permission to mirror the vorlin.org site if it
> goes down for any reason. I have put the entire contents of the website in a
> ZIP file at www.vorlin.org/vorlin_archive.zip
This is actually a very good idea.  There's some space left on my
machine, too, so I have just installed a regular mirroring of the
above URL.  It will appear at:

   http://archives.conlang.info/attic/

If anyone else has any conlang/conscript/conhistory to mirror, just
tell me, I'll add it to the mirroring process as long as my server has
enough storage left.  Let's start with a (weakly enforced) 5MB
limitation per person (I have about 500MB free without having to think
much and a little more if I start to think.  It's not the largest hard
drive out there.)  Please keep the number of files low (maybe up to
100 would be ok).

The URL you provide should be http or https and it will be recursively
mirrored once a day.  I'll add versioned archiving to another machine
later (via versioned rsync).  In the first version the versioning will
not be public (but you can ask me at any time whether there is an old
version).

So, send your URL if you want to be mirrored!


If anyone wants to implement secondary mirroring, you could simply
mirror the following URL then, but it introduces a single point of
failure (=my machine):

   http://archives.conlang.info/attic/

Alternatively, you can mirror only the file

   http://archives.conlang.info/attic/urls.txt

and implement your own archiving from that file.  Still single point
of failure, but only for the list of URLs, which is probably ok.

**Henrik

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