[mb-devel] Setting up a mirror?

[Steve Wyles]

On Mon, 17 Jul 2006, Elliot Chance wrote:

> However, I have an intel 3Ghz, 1GB ram, 80GB hdd with fedora core 5
> installed that is sitting there doing nothing. So if I was to install a
> replication of the MB tables, would I download the 6GB as one chunk, or how
> would I get the data?

There are regular snapshot backups produced. As they are compressed, the 
download isn't too bad. In fact for a replicated server, some of them 
arn't required.

db snapshots can be found:

ftp://ftp.musicbrainz.org/pub/musicbrainz/data/fullexport/

You should grab the latest and the replication packet processing will then 
pull the required data to bring the db in line with the main server.

There are some instructions on the wiki for setting up the server, I think 
they are reasonably upto date apart from server requirements.

http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/ServerSetup

There are also some instructions included with the server code.

If there is anything you don't understand or get stuck, drop an email here 
or shout on IRC

Steve