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23 What is a mirror?

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This article is from the Amiga Networking FAQ, by Richard Norman with numerous contributions by others.

23 What is a mirror?

    

Some archives are heavily used and therefore must be supported by multiple sites which are often located very far apart. Each site should ideally have identical information available therefore they are mirrors of each other. When one site gets a new file it must be mirrored to the other sites usually using FTP.

 

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