[Typo3-dev] Mirroring typo3.org etc.

[Jan-Hendrik Heuing [netfielders]]

> i discussed with some people, and i was wrong about that mirror tool, it's
> only used for local mirrors in the same datacenter.
> but they said that rsync is no problem, because when de whole site is
> mirrored once, rsync will only tranfer the files that are changed. so this
> reduces useless traffic. php.net uses also rsync to keep theirs mirrors up
> to date, and we are talking over lot's of mirrors and huge db's.

Sorry...:
If you've got a 2.000.000 records table, and if 1 (one) record changes,
rsync has to transfer the whole table again, as it is just one file. That
would be about the whole database each replication via rsync, so that does
not work.

JH