One of the problems with the archival process is handling of p2 repositories which do not go through the mirror selection script.
http://wiki.eclipse.org/IT_Infrastructure_Doc#Move_files_to_archive.eclipse.org.3F
Currently, only the mirror selection script is able to delegate to archive.eclipse.org, so auto-archiving would break those repositories.
If there are resources available to work on this, it would be much better if download.eclipse.org served as central gateway to both the primary download server and the archive. Then one can implement all sort of archiving policies without involving projects or affecting end users referencing these URLs… You can auto-archive based on age, you can auto-archive based on demand, heck you can even pick a goal for how much to mirror and have a heuristic that shuffles between primary and archive to meet that goal.
- Konstantin
From: cross-project-issues-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:cross-project-issues-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Wayne Beaton
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Does it make sense to consider moving files that are old--say three or more years old--to the archive server automatically?
Wayne
On 06/19/2012 10:33 AM, Denis Roy wrote:
To help you clean up older builds and files from the Eclipse download server, I've compiled a list of files that are actually sync'ed to our mirrors.
http://download.eclipse.org/technology/phoenix/download.eclipse.org-filelist.txt.gz
I each project to look at the file list, and either remove files that are no longer needed, or move older releases[1] to the archives.
Thanks,
Denis
[1] http://wiki.eclipse.org/IT_Infrastructure_Doc#Downloads
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