[SAC] [support.osuosl.org #27802] Mirroring OSGeo Downloads over OSUOSL ftp Service

[Lance Albertson via RT]

On Mon May 13 21:48:39 2019, lr at pcorp.us wrote:
> [Regina Obe]
> 
> I've setup an account osladmin on download.osgeo.org
> 
> Can you confirm you can rsync with
> 
> rsync -avz osladmin at download.osgeo.org:/osgeo/ wherever
> 
> I think avz should be sufficient.

How large is that folder?

> The osgeo folder has two folders - a download and a bottle one.
> 
> Note all these files are public so no special read permissions need to be put
> in place.
> 
> On our current setup, the download folder is accessed via
> 
> https://download.osgeo.org
> 
> and the bottle folder is accessed via
> 
> https://bottle.download.osgeo.org
> 
> It would be nice if we could have a similar setup for the mirror

We can do those subdomains configured in that manner however the https endpoints
are currently only serving and *.osuosl.org certificate. We have a long term
plan to deploy LetsEncrypt on that cluster, but it requires some additional
engineering. Will this be an issue?

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Lance Albertson
Director
Oregon State University | Open Source Lab