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rsync.repo.almalinux.org Maintenance
by Jonathan Wright 30 Sep '22

30 Sep '22

Hello Mirror Owners, We are doing some maintenance on the main rsync mirror ( rsync.repo.almalinux.org) shortly to upgrade the drive array. We've updated DNS to point to a backup mirror so you should not see any issues on your end unless you use a DNS caching server that's exceptionally slow at updating. If you do see any errors do not worry about it as they are only temporary. The web server side of rsync.repo.almalinux.org will drop offline during this but rsyncd should remain functional. No action is required on your part. -- Jonathan Wright AlmaLinux Foundation Mattermost: chat <https://chat.almalinux.org/almalinux/messages/@jonathan>

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rsync 3.2 w/xxhash Now Usable rsync.repo.almalinux.org
by Jonathan Wright 03 Dec '21

03 Dec '21

Hello Mirror Owners, rsync on the official rsync mirror (rsync.repo.almalinux.org) has been updated to 3.2.3 with xxHash support. This means that rsync w/xxhash is now available for consumption by all mirrors. The upstream rsync version available in EL8 (currently 3.1.3) is too old to support xxHash so we've made available a backported RPM from CentOS 9 Stream with xxHash support compiled. rsync 3.2.3-9.el8.1 is available at http://repo.almalinux.org/backports/8/x86_64/rsync/. It depends on the xxhash-libs package from EPEL. If your mirror is on EL8 you can easily update to this version of rsync with the following commands: yum -y install epel-release curl http://repo.almalinux.org/backports/almalinux-backports-rsync.repo --output /etc/yum.repos.d/almalinux-backports-rsync.repo yum -y update rsync No further action is required and your mirror will now sync from rsync.repo.almalinux.org using the xxHash algorithm. xxHash is a great improvement to rsync as it provides faster, more CPU efficient hashing allowing higher transfer rates to be obtained. There is a good article about rsync+xxhash and benchmarks available at https://community.centminmod.com/threads/custom-rsync-3-2-3-rpm-builds-with… -- Jonathan Wright AlmaLinux Foundation Mattermost: chat <https://chat.almalinux.org/almalinux/messages/@jonathan>

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