mirror-sync

A tool to mirror repostories for Linux and other similar tools. This tool is designed to help follow upstream mirror instructions, and implement the features they expect from a downstream official mirror. It also includes features to help keep you in the loop in case of situations that need manual intervention.

Configuration

It is suggested that you mirror using a sub user account, this tool prevents execution as root to protect you. Once you have an user account dedicated to mirror activities, you can make the log directory, configure logrotate, and add a configuration file to define configurations.

Making log directory

mkdir -p /var/log/mirror-sync/
chown mirror: /var/log/mirror-sync/

Configuration for logrotate

/var/log/mirror-sync/*.log {
    rotate 7
    create 644 mirror mirror
    daily
    missingok
    notifempty
    sharedscripts
    copytruncate
    compress
}

Configuring mirror-sync

The configuration file is in /etc/mirror-sync.conf and is formatted in bash.

Main configurations

MODULES

The available modules separated by space. Each module is a separate repostory to sync, and this list allows the script to know how to find their configs.

TRACEHOST

The hostname to show in trace project files, it defaults to the FQDN hostname of the server.

mirror_hostname

The hostname of this mirror server, it defaults to the FQDN hostname of the server. If you have a public domain for your mirror, you may wish to adjust this configurtion to that.

PIDPATH

If you wish to override where pid files are stored to prevent duplicate module syncs, the default is /tmp and the directory must have write access for the mirror user.

LOGPATH

If you wish to override where logs are stored, the default is /var/log/mirror-sync and the directory must have write access for the mirror user.

max_errors

How many errors before an email is sent regarding the issue. This allows you to ignore anomolies.

upstream_max_age

If the upstream last modified date is older than the defined number of seconds, the upstream check will skip syncing. Default is 5 hours.

upstream_timestamp_min

If an upstream check is configured, this defines the minimum age in seconds of the last successful sync before the next sync will skip the upstream check. Default is 24 hours.

QFM_PATH

Path to where quick-fedora-mirror is located and configurations are saved. If you already have QFM installed, but want configurations stored separately. You can use the QFM_BIN configuration to set the QFM binary path.

QFM_BIN

The binary path for quick-fedora-mirror. If you override QFM_PATH, you will likely also have to override this path. Default:

QFM_BIN="$QFM_PATH/quick-fedora-mirror"

JIGDO_FILE_BIN

If you installed jigdo outside of the home directory, you need to manually configure the jigdo-file binary path here.

JIGDO_MIRROR_BIN

If you installed jigdo outside of the home directory, you need to manually configure the jigdo-mirror binary path here.

jigdoConf

If you use jigdo to build ISO images, this is the base configuration file name. The jigdo hook saves configurations in ${jigdoConf:?}.${arch}.${s} format.

MAILTO

The email address of which to mail errors to.

INFO_MAINTAINER

The maintainer of this repository, should be defined in name <email> format.

INFO_SPONSOR

If this repo is sponsored, you may define the sponsors here.

INFO_COUNTRY

The country of which this server resides.

INFO_LOCATION

The region of which this server resides (state/providence).

INFO_THROUGHPUT

How fast are the pipes to your repository.

INFO_TRIGGER

How did the sync occur, cron job or manually via ssh? This is auto detected and you do not need to define this configuration.

Module specific configurations

Each module is configured via configurations prefixed by the module name. The one configuration used by all modules is the _sync_method configuration which defines what sync method to use. Each sync method has different configurations available. The default sync method is rsync.

Each repo has at bare minimum the following configurations:

• sync_method - rsync, git, aws, ftp, wget, or qfm.
• repo - The destination directory of the repository.
• timestamp - Path to a file to store the last successful sync unix time stamp. Can be used by a monitoring system to confirm each repo is syncing successfully.

git

Synchronizes a git repository via git pull. To use this method, you need to have the git package installed.

options

Extra options appended to get pull.

Example

example_sync_method="git"
example_repo="/home/mirror/http/example"
example_timestamp="/home/mirror/timestamp/example"

aws

Synchronize with an s3 bucket using aws cli. To use this, you need the aws cli package installed.

aws_bucket

The bucket URL to sync with.

aws_access_key

The access key for the s3 bucket.

aws_endpoint_url

If you are using a third party S3 compatible service, you can enter their endpoint URL here.

options

Extra options to append to aws s3 sync.

Example

example_sync_method="aws"
example_repo="/home/mirror/http/example"
example_timestamp="/home/mirror/timestamp/example"
example_aws_bucket="s3://bucket/directory"
example_aws_access_key="RANDOM_KEY_FROM_PROVIDER"
example_aws_secret_key="RANDOM_SECRET_FROM_PROVIDER"

ftp

Synchronize both http and ftp sources to a repo. This sync method requires the lftp package to be installed.

source

The source url to mirror from.

options

Extra options to append to the mirror command of lftp.

Example

example_sync_method="ftp"
example_repo="/home/mirror/http/example/"
example_timestamp="/home/mirror/timestamp/example"
example_source="https://repos.example.com/rhel/7/x86_64/stable"

wget

Synchronizes using wget to a repository. To use this, you need the wget package installed.

source

The source url to mirror from.

options

The options passed to wget. Defaults to --mirror --no-host-directories --no-parent.

Example

example_sync_method="wget"
example_repo="/home/mirror/http/example/"
example_timestamp="/home/mirror/timestamp/example"
example_source="https://repos.example.com/rhel/7/x86_64/stable"
example_options="--mirror --no-host-directories --no-parent --cut-dirs=4"

rsync

By far, the most common mirror method is to use rsync. It, while not perfect, is more efficent than using wget or ftp mirroring. You will need the rsync package installed for this to function. There is an extra CLI argument available for this sync method, --force which allows you to by-pass upstream checks and synchronize immediately.

pre_hook

A hook to run prior to the first stage sync.

source

The rsync server or ssh server URL.

options

Synchronization options for the first rsync stage.

options_stage2

If your repo needs a 2 stage rsync, define some options here. The most basic option you can use, if you want to force stage 2 to occur, would be --exclude '.~tmp~'.

pre_stage2_hook

A hook to run prior to the second stage sync.

upstream_check

An http URL to check the last modified date as a reference for if the upstream mirror was possibly modified recently. This option is mainly here to lower the impact on upstream mirrors so that mirrorning happens less often. See upstream_timestamp_min and upstream_max_age for global configuration options of this check.

report_mirror

If you have Fedora report mirror installed, and need to report back to Fedora about the status of your repository, you can provide this option a configuration path for the report_mirror utility to run the report after a successful sync.

rsync_password

If you have an rsync password and need to authenticate with an rsync server, this is where you define the password.

post_hook

Any hooks to call after a successful sync, define here. If you are using jigdo, the hook is jigdo_hook.

arch_configurations

Information for trace files on what architectures are synchronized to this mirror.

type

For the trace file saving, this defines what type of repo is being synced. Options are deb, rpm, iso, or source.

Example

Example for RPM based mirror:

example_repo="/home/mirror/http/example/"
example_timestamp="/home/mirror/timestamp/example"
example_source="rsync://rsync.example.org/module/"
example_options="--exclude '.~tmp~' --exclude 'repodata/*'"
example_options_stage2="--exclude '.~tmp~'"
example_type="rpm"

Example for DEB based mirror:

example_repo="/home/mirror/http/example/"
example_timestamp="/home/mirror/timestamp/example"
example_source="rsync://rsync.example.org/module/"
example_options="--exclude '.~tmp~' --include=*.diff/ --exclude=*.diff/Index --exclude=Packages* --exclude=Sources* --exclude=Release* --exclude=InRelease --include=i18n/by-hash --exclude=i18n/* --exclude=ls-lR*"
example_options_stage2="--exclude '.~tmp~'"
example_type="deb"

Example with jigdo:

example_repo="/home/mirror/http/example/"
example_timestamp="/home/mirror/timestamp/example"
example_source="rsync://rsync.example.org/module/"
example_options="--exclude '.~tmp~' --exclude '*.iso'"
example_pre_stage2_hook="jigdo_hook"
example_options_stage2="--exclude '.~tmp~'"
example_type="iso"

qfm

Quick Fedora Mirror is a tool to help Fedora mirrors distribute changes faster and save on resources when trying to discover what needs to be synced. To use this method, you must have both the rsync and zsh package installed. This tool automatically downloads QFM if you do not already have it installed.

This tool requires that the upstream mirror has an module with sub modules designed for use with quick-fedora-mirror. You can use this tool with non-fedora mirrors, however they must follow the fedora module configurations. For fedora mirrors, you can utilize tier 1 mirrors.

You can list modules available on an rsync server with:

rsync --list-only rsync://SERVER

And to check a module out, you can list the files with:

rsync --list-only rsync://SERVER/MODULE

pre_hook

A hook to run prior to running QFM.

source

The source rsync server, without any modules appended.

master_module

The main rsync module under which the fedora sub module directories exist. Defaults to fedora-buffet.

module_mapping

If you are using this with a non-fedora mirror, you can define your own custom sub module mapping.

mirror_manager_mapping

The names for custom module mapping.

modules

The sub modules to sync. It is recommended that you only do one sub module, the modules available by default are fedora-alt, fedora-archive, fedora-enchilada, fedora-epel, and fedora-secondary.

options

Extra options to pass to quick-fedora-mirror.

filterexp

If you wish to filter out particular directories/files, define regular expression here.

rsync_options

Extra options to pass to rsync during sync.

report_mirror

If you have Fedora report mirror installed, and need to report back to Fedora about the status of your repository, you can provide this option a configuration path for the report_mirror utility to run the report after a successful sync.

rsync_password

If you have an rsync password and need to authenticate with an rsync server, this is where you define the password.

post_hook

Any hooks to call after a successful sync, define here.

arch_configurations

Information for trace files on what architectures are synchronized to this mirror.

type

For the trace file saving, this defines what type of repo is being synced. Options are deb, rpm, iso, or source.

Example

example_sync_method=qfm
example_repo='/home/mirror/http/example/'
example_timestamp='/home/mirror/timestamp/example'
example_source='rsync://mirrors.example.com'
example_modules=fedora-enchilada
example_report_mirror='/home/mirror/report_mirror.conf'
example_type=rpm

CLI Options

There are not that many cli options available, usage is as follows:

[--help|--update-support-utilities] {module} [--force]

Requirements list

• bash
• zsh
• sendmail
• git
• awscli
• lftp
• wget
• rsync
• jigdo - this tool auto installs.
• quick-fedora-mirror - this tool auto installs.

Install on RPM based servers

yum install bash zsh sendmail git awscli lftp wget rsync

Install on DEB based servers

apt install bash zsh sendmail git awscli lftp wget rsync

Install on Arch

yay -S bash zsh sendmail git aws-cli-git lftp wget rsync