How to make a Mirror of Elive

Mirror for ISOs

If you have a server and would like to mirror Elive ISOs, you are more than welcome! This document explains everything that you need for it.

Requeriments

You need to have a good bandwith and if you have a monthly limit you need to control that is not exceeded. The size is around 20 Gb of disk space in order to keep some variety of isos (2-3 previous versions and derivated versions).

The synchronization of the ISO repository is automatically managed using rsync+ssh. So we simply need an ssh login access and having rsync installed.

It is also required, of course, to have a subdomain created that points to a specific directory (this dir is your choice), like ​http://isos.elive.yourdomain.com, it is not really important what name you use for it, just make sure that they works and that points to the specific directories where we will put the isos, try to access to them via a web browser.

Also, tell us what you want to have in the Thanks to and Server Name for the list of mirrors, ​check this example

When you have all this ready, just send an email to ​Thanatermesis with the details (ssh login details, subdomain, etc)

In the future, if you need to disable your mirror in the future you can do it by disabling/remove the subdomain access (not being able to connect to it, giving a 404 error), our future website will detect it and ignore the mirror from its list.

Extra Requeriments

It is basically needed a ssh login and rsync installed, but if you can, please directly the public ssh key (ssh login will be made with the ssh key, not directly with password), the public key that you need to add in .ssh/authorized_keys is:

ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABIwAAAQEAk45j0yfCnHcyi6EKy/tnUOfUKMMeVf1rc/nRPratslLwVVr+bCqjS/KVc5si+8yGsCxQzow2TC3hlymvyxVZhA0Q17G87UQb61nLeG9sl45LyPg5gqLYZUoxaxjT/L/T5XkqpfXhXle5ix0metdSh0sZHMnfhRvMXOAkQHY7YBWMkh9TOLu45GiUW2XKDSZjEWV0NeR06r66KspqsV5jR6HCZ9iQDMoya/6HdTqNDqpza+qqAcHvXCWAbAgr95PXDbSM1KIS9KCRebHVka1437kCU3vrwXKBIb0OF0Rnseqs4icTu2xnu74H2/+uM/C+o4f2QFjJM/CwlQ0w2kL2+Q== elivewebsites@zatara

Space and Bandwith

We don't have actual download numbers, but keep in mind that if you don't have one of these supa-nice-bandwidth that you will never use that much, just forget the idea. There are many downloads of the ISOs. Do not be scared, the max. bandwidth used for icedslash in a month was 150 gb

The size needed to store the ISOs will vary, though it has never been more than 5gb (think about some isos in a directory), but if the limit is set to 10gb that would be nice :)

You should have a control of your bandwith usage, it is your responsability to control it if you have any limit of bandwith set on your provider, you can set a limit to your domain configuration if you like, or watch stats, and in case that you are near to pass any limit, you must contact Thanatermesis inmediately

Mirror for Repository

There you will need a lot more storage space. The repository is approx. 50 gb. If you have a very good host with very good speed and very good bandwith you will be able to mirror the repository too :). The only real requirement of this is that you maintain a long-time host. We do not want to have to change the 'sources.list' in the future due to a broken repository that will not connect anymore (in any case, it could be fixed by changing the DNS)

The special requirement of this is that you will be able to add a subdomain of a domain that you don't own, for example asia.repository.elive-systems.com, you don't own the domain elive-systems.com but your mirror needs to accept this address in order to understand the redirect from the real domain.

Actually we have these two ones:

• US - (Los Angeles): By the Elive Servers
• Europe - (France): By Icedslash