[DECtalk] the archive is messed up

[Tony Baechler]

You are being very unfair to planetmirror.com.  Their mirroring is 
entirely automated.  If it can't access a directory, it deletes 
it.  This is very logical and makes good sense.  It is up to you, as 
archive maintainer to keep track of permission problems.  On the 
other hand, they'll get everything again once permissions are fixed.

My suggestion is to download and read the rsync(1) man page.  I 
really, really like rsync.  Most people will have a hard time using 
it but it's good for mirroring.  That would also avoid some of the 
problems in the future.  Just have planetmirror rsync from you daily 
and eliminate all ftp access.  What you want to do about the 
copyrighted and adult material is up to you but I suggest make that 
http only and not have planetmirror get it.

At 05:04 PM 10/12/06 -0400, you wrote:
>Snoopi files were present.  But they did download them all and, sadly,
>deleted them all when they became inaccessible.  I'm surprised they would
>delete stuff like that, considering it was clearly a permission problem
>keeping the files inaccessible, rather than the directories on the server
>actually being empty.  In my opinion at least, it was during this time that
>a mirror would have actually been useful, and what do they do?  Delete
>delete delete.  Sheesh.
>Jayson.


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