Hi Everyone,

As predicted in my previous email we have now also upgraded the wiki dump
to use rsync.  The new instructions are available at:
http://wiki.ros.org/Mirrors

An incremental update can be done now in less than a minute.

Tully


On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 8:51 PM, Tully Foote <tfoote@osrfoundation.org>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> This is a message to maintainers of ROS mirrors. We have updated the
> infrastructure to support mirroring of the API documentation from a tarball
> download to an rsync invoction.  The new method takes significantly less
> bandwidth, processing, and diskspace to maintain the mirrors.
>
> The updated instructions have been posted on the wiki
> http://wiki.ros.org/Mirrors You will need to replace the download and
> unpack command with a single rsync command.
>
> Due to the improved performance for both the source and downstream mirrors
> I expect to switch the main wiki mirror over as well in the near future.  I
> will send a follow up message about that too.
>
> Tully
>