[mb-devel] Setting up a mirror?

[Steve Wyles]

On Sun, 16 Jul 2006, Elliot Chance wrote:

> Hey,
>
> I need a bit of info about setting up a private/public mirror. I read the
> wiki, and your bandwidth link goes to a page that can't be found.
>
> Also, how will the data on my server be updated from the real data?
>
> Can you supply some figures of bandwidth, and server specs?
>

For private use, the bandwidth figures are minimal as it is just the 
database replication packets inbound, an average web surfing session is 
more data. Similarly, the server specs are also much reduced.

My test/dev server is running on an:

Athlon XP 1700+
512MB RAM
Single 40G ATA/100 Drive

The replicated database is currently around 6GB

Data is updated hourly from the replication packet produced by the main 
server, these can be pulled using either http or ftp. See: 
ftp://ftp.musicbrainz.org/pub/musicbrainz/data/replication/

For public use, the main bottlenecks are going to be memory and database 
access, where a high speed RAID backend will be required.

Rob might be able to supply the bandwidth figures for the .nl server, but 
the main server(s) ones can be found within:

http://stats.musicbrainz.org/mrtg/

Steve