ExoticA is an Amiga and retro gaming/computer music interest wiki including search-able computer music collections, game and demo scene information and plenty more.
Rsync is a widely used, efficient and easy method to mirror file servers. It would be an ideal way to keep chips in sync for (un)exotica users. I would suggest you setup an anonymous rsync server for people to mirror your song collections. It would save a lot of effort.
side note:
uade team has been using rsync server for chip collection for a long time. we plan to make our chip server public when we get a 20-30 GB IDE hard disk. When we have that, our collection will go publicly online on a 100Mbits server. And no, it would not be an ftp / http server - rsync only.
We use already use rsync for the mirroring of exotica. However, encouraging people to mirror the entire collection would mean a hell of a lot more traffic. With the site already doing 30gb a month, its not something I could ask the sysadmin to do. Perhaps in the future.
In addition, due to the rsync requiring Record Locking and the lack of support for this in Geekgadgets an amigaos port of rsync is not easy. So straight away some visitors would be unable to use the facility.
BuZz wrote:However, encouraging people to mirror the entire collection would mean a hell of a lot more traffic. With the site already doing 30gb a month, its not something I could ask the sysadmin to do. Perhaps in the future.
I doubt it would mean a lot more traffic. Anyway, 30GB or even 60GB per month is little.
Would you provide us an rsync access if we would have a public rsync mirror?
