[tech] ftp.uwa.edu.au
Ian McKellar
yakk at yakk.net.au
Fri May 19 14:14:57 WST 2000
On Fri, May 19, 2000 at 02:09:15PM +0800, Simon Fryer wrote:
> Bing
>
> > A while ago Duncan Sargeant tapped:
>
> > > i noticed this last night. it doesn't recognize the anonymous user
> > > anymore ... dunc?
> >
> > uniwa had a disk failure and is being brought up on another machine.
> > You can probably say goodbye to the mirrors for the moment.
>
> Can UCC be the mirror for a short while? UWA has backups doesn't it
> because it is nGB at $0.xx/MB???
>
> *ponder* We should have a nice 6GB and 4GB drives floating about somewhere
> from old /home and /services.
>
> Nick mutters about 13GB of IPI disk....
(1) Who would pay the bill?
The cost is not insignificant, and the benefit is minimal.
(2) Why bother?
ftp.q-net.net.au has a much more up to date debian mirror than UCS
keeps (at least for i386) - and its on WAIX.
Ian
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