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<h2>Tor: Running a Mirror</h2>
<hr />

Thanks for considering to be a mirror. All of our mirrors are publicly
listed on <a href="<page mirrors>">our mirrors page</a>. You should
expect around 500 page requests per day from users all over the world.
The Tor website and distribution directory currently require 15GB of
disk space. The /dist directory alone is 3.6 GB.

If you would like to run a mirror, it's as easy as this command to download
everything a mirror should share with the world:
 
<tt>
rsync -av --delete rsync://rsync.torproject.org/tor tor-mirror/
</tt>
 
If you would like to run only a dist/ mirror, it's as easy as this command to 
download everything a dist mirror should share with the world:
 
<tt>
rsync -av --delete rsync://rsync.torproject.org/tor/dist tor-mirror-dist/
</tt>
 

An example cronjob to update a full mirror once a day may look like so:
<tt>
<pre>
# m h dom mon dow command
1 4 * * * rsync -av --delete rsync://rsync.torproject.org/tor /var/www/mirrors/torproject.org/
</pre>
</tt>

 
For mirror operators that use Apache, we've created a sample virtual host
configuration file to use:
<tt>
<pre>
&lt;VirtualHost 1.2.3.4:80&gt;
 ServerAdmin youremail@example.com
 ServerName 1.2.3.4

DocumentRoot /var/www/mirrors/torproject.org

&lt;Directory /var/www/mirrors/torproject.org/&gt;
                Options MultiViews
                DirectoryIndex index
                AllowOverride None
        &lt;/Directory&gt;

&lt;VirtualHost&gt;
</pre>
</tt>
 
Please ensure that you keep your mirror updated (we suggest automating this
task with something like '<tt>cron</tt>'). Our website, source code and
binary releases change often. Tor users everywhere will thank you.

 

If you are running a mirror, please email
<a href="<page contact>">tor-webmaster</a> and we'll add it to the list.

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tor-webwml.git

Include page request and disk space estimates for running a mirror. Thanks to m1 for the suggestion.