GRASS GIS mirror sites

Software mirror sites

Official master site via HTTP/FTP

• Official master site at OSGeo.org (HTTP) - Mirror Web statistics

GRASS Wiki mirror:

• GRASS read-only Wiki mirror

• Namibia (Tier 2, Polytechnic of Namibia)

• India (Tier 1, Indian Inst. of Science)
• Japan (Tier 2, Univ. of Osaka)
• South Korea (Tier 2, Jinju Univ.)

• Finland (Tier 1)
• France (Tier 1, CICT - Université de Toulouse)
• Germany (Tier 1, Univ. of Hannover)
• Germany (Tier 1, Netmirror)
• Italy (Tier 1)
• Russia (Tier 1, gis-lab.info)
• Slovakia (Tier 1)
• Bulgaria (Tier 2, Sofia University)
• Croatia (Tier 2, FER)
• Germany (Tier 2, ZdG GmbH)
• France (Tier 2, Univ. of Bourgogne)
• France (Tier 2, ZdG GmbH)
• Germany (Tier 2, Univ. of Duisburg)
• Germany (Tier 2, online-mirror.de)
• Germany (Tier 2, very-clever.com)
• Germany (Tier 2, activshopper.com)
• Italy (Tier 2, Univ. of Parma)
• Italy (Tier 2, ominiverdi.org)
• Poland (Tier 2, Wroclaw Univ.)
• Poland (Tier 2, Cracow)
• Romania (Tier 2, Univ. of Bucharest)
• Slovakia (Tier 2, Prime Interactive Ltd.)
• Turkey (Tier 2, Istanbul Teknik Üniversitesi)

• France (Tier 1, CICT - Université de Toulouse)
• Germany (Tier 1, Netmirror Berlin)
• Germany (Tier 2, Univ. of Duisburg)
• Germany (Tier 2, Univ. of Würzburg)

• U.S.A. (Tier 1, ibiblio.org)
• U.S.A. (Tier 2, ip97.com)
• U.S.A. (Tier 2, eruditium.org)
• U.S.A. (Tier 2, zerg.biz)
• U.S.A. (Tier 2, healthmicronews.com)

• U.S.A. (Tier 1, ibiblio.org)

• Brazil (Tier 2, Univ. of Sao Paulo)

Further GRASS Development related Sites
GeoISEM at North Carolina State University

Become a GRASS mirror site!

Requirements: A GRASS mirror site requires around 690 MB space, the space requirements may vary due to the changing presence of precompiled binaries. Also PHP (PHP3 or later) support is required.
If you would like to support the GRASS community, do not hesitate to contact us and report the running mirror.

How to set up a mirror site:
The master site at OSGEO (grass.osgeo.org) supports the "rsync" software protocol to synchronize the mirrors automatically overnight. The idea of using "rsync" mirror software is that only changed files are downloaded which minimizes the network traffic. The master site provides "rsync" access only to a few "tier 1" mirrors; you can then connect your mirror site to these "tier 1" mirrors (as they also provide "rsync" capabilities).

Mirror site setup in greater detail:

1. Install the rsync software.
2. Check if you can connect - note the two '::' characters (this command should display a welcome message):
   
   • rsync grass.osgeo.org:: (master site, restricted to tier 1 mirrors)
   • rsync grass.fbk.eu:: (tier 1 mirror, provides "rsync" for other mirrors)
   • rsync ibiblio.org:: (tier 1 mirror, provides "rsync" for other mirrors)
   • rsync grass.bergenheim.net:: (tier 1 mirror, provides "rsync" for other mirrors)
   • rsync gulus.USherbrooke.ca:: (tier 1 mirror, provides "rsync" for other mirrors)
3. Define a daily cron-job (in 'crontab') for rsync (example):
   /usr/bin/rsync -r --delete --times --links --bwlimit=200 ibiblio.org::grass /mirror/grass/
   This will copy/update the GRASS site to your local directory /mirror/grass/
4. Check if the synchronization works the next day(s).
5. Announce the new mirror site for this mirror list to us.