Mirroring OSMC

[Sam Nazarko]

Hi,

We are OSMC (https://osmc.tv). OSMC (Open Source Media Center) is a free and open source media player based on Linux and founded in 2014 that lets you play back media from your local network, attached storage and the Internet. OSMC is the leading media center in terms of feature set and community. Our distribution is based on Debian Jessie and Kodi (formerly XBMC). We offer a semi-rolling release with monthly updates. As we release monthly updates, this is causing a significant strain on our already overprovisioned CDN.

We would appreciate it if you could mirror our project. We simply need to synchronise over rsync and serve files over HTTP. We don't have any complex requirements. Our mirror is currently approx 15GB and could grow up to 25GB in the future. We can weight your mirror properly if you let us know your network connectivity.

I look forward to hearing from you

Best,

Sam

[Justin Wong]

Hi Sam,

We're glad to mirror OSMC project. We would start mirror job as soon as you provide the rsync server
address :)

Cheers,
Justin Wong

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[Sam Nazarko]

Hi Justin,

Thanks for the quick reply

We are hosting an APT repository, so it is advised to rsync in two stages:

rsync -auP --exclude Packages* --exclude Sources* --exclude Release* --exclude InRelease --exclude i18n/* --exclude ls-lR* rsync://rsync.samnazarko.co.uk/cdn /var/www/html

rsync -auP --delete rsync://rsync.samnazarko.co.uk/cdn /var/www/html

It would be great (but not necessary) if you could synchronise hourly. Can you let me know about the mirror's bandwidth? And do you provide FTP or rsync so that we can verify synchronisation?

Many thanks!

Sam
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From: Justin Wong <i...@bigeagle.me>
Sent: 20 January 2016 14:29
To: thu-opensourc...@googlegroups.com; Sam Nazarko
Subject: Re: [THU Mirror:2961] Mirroring OSMC

[Justin Wong]

Hi Sam,

We've started the syncing job, and syncing interval is 4 hours.

We also provide rsync access, rsync://mirrors.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn/osmc/

Our bandwidth is: shared 1000Mbps over IPv4 and shared 10Gbps over IPv6.

Cheers,
Justin Wong

[Sam Nazarko]

Hi Justin,

Thanks -- that's great!

Sam
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Sent: 20 January 2016 14:48
To: Sam Nazarko
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[Alick Zhao]

带宽什么时候变得这么壕了？

[Justin Wong]

也不一定一直这样吧，只是最近运气比较好

 

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[Justin Wong]

Hi Sam,

The syncing has done. I'm wondering if you can provide a document of how to use mirrors on OSMC,
so that we can but it on our website.

Cheers,
Justin

[Sam Nazarko]

Hi Justin,

We will automatically redirect our download and APT services to your mirror. Thank you very much for your support!

Best wishes,

Sam
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From: Justin Wong <i...@bigeagle.me>

Sent: 20 January 2016 17:33

[Benda Xu]

Alick Zhao <alic...@gmail.com> writes:

> 带宽什么时候变得这么壕了？
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> On Jan 20, 2016 8:48 AM, "Justin Wong" <i...@bigeagle.me> wrote:
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> Our bandwidth is: shared 1000Mbps over IPv4 and shared 10Gbps over
> IPv6.

IPv6 带宽这么大吗？

[Sam Nazarko]

Hi Justin,

We are sometimes having some issues connecting to the mirror via rsync (which we use to verify the integrity of the mirror).

Sam
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From: Sam Nazarko
Sent: 20 January 2016 18:52
To: i...@bigeagle.me

[Justin Wong]

Hi Sam,

Our master DNS server meets a power issue and the slave is suffering
from network issue, and very unfortunately, this happens on a weekend of
winter holiday so all faculties are absent.

Currently we can only wait for the next weekday.

Cheers,
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Justin Wong

[Sam Nazarko]

Hi Justin,

No problem -- I just wanted to make sure this was not an issue at our side.

Sam
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From: Justin Wong <i...@bigeagle.me>

Sent: 22 January 2016 15:08

[Sam Nazarko]

Hello

We have stopped using mirrors for APT, as we found it to be unreliable. Some mirrors cached files for too long and some did not fully mirror the repository, which caused Hash Sum Mismatch errors with clients. We now use a single known good mirror for APT at this time; and only use the mirror director for downloads. This may change in the future however.​

We used to bundle apt-transport-https but this is not necessary as this mirror offers an HTTP source. 

Sam Nazarko


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Sent: 01 October 2016 10:53
To: THU Opensource Mirror Admin
Cc: i...@bigeagle.me; Sam Nazarko

Subject: Re: [THU Mirror:2961] Mirroring OSMC

 

Hey guys, great to see there's a mirror inside China for OSMC, thanks!

I've just installed OSMC on my Pi in Beijing (I'm from the UK but brought a Pi over when I moved to China!) and unfortunately the Tsinghua mirror is never selected by the mirror system.

@Sam - is there something that can be done to fix this? If I run:

curl -vvv http://apt.osmc.tv

from multiple machines in China (I have my personal laptop, and a few web servers in China) they all return the address http://ftp.fau.de/osmc/osmc/apt/ as opposed to the Tsinghua server.

Because of the Great Firewall of China, connecting to websites outside of China is really, really, slow (my apt update is currently downloading at 10.5kB/s) so it would be really great to improve the mirror distribution system to provide the Tsinghua server for all users in China.

I'm happy to help debug/test!

Thanks

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