Mirrors maintenance

Contact Information

Owner: GNOME Sysadmin Team

Contact: #sysadmin

Persons: AndreaVeri

Machine: webapps2

URL: https://download.gnome.org

Puppet module: mirrorbrain

Official documentation: http://mirrorbrain.org/docs

Description

Maintenance instructions on how to properly manage the GNOME Mirrorbrain istance.

Action

Main maintenance commands will follow.

Adding a new mirror:

sudo -u mirrorbrain mb new mirror-name --rsync rsync://rsync-url --http http://http-url

Once you've added the mirror to Mirrorbrain, make sure the main contact for the new mirror is added on the gnome-mirror-admins@gnome.org alias file located at puppet/modules/postfix/files/virtual-aliases/virtual-gnome.org.

Enabling a new mirror:

sudo -u mirrorbrain mb scan --enable mirror-name

Editing a new mirror with your favourite editor:

sudo -u mirrorbrain mb edit mirror-name

Note: disabling or deleting a mirror should not be needed as Mirrorbrain automatically disables offline mirrors through a cronjob that triggers an SQL query that then disables the mirror itself temporarily

Disabling a mirror:

sudo -u mirrorbrain mb disable mirror-name

Deleting a mirror:

sudo -u mirrorbrain mb delete mirror-name