Mirror: Quick Start Guide for the Impatient If you are NOT impatient what you should do is:  1. Get the latest version of mirror from:     ftp://sunsite.org.uk/packages/mirror/mirror.tar.gz     ftp://sunsite.org.uk/packages/mirror/mirror.zip  2. Read the mirror documentation to be found at:     http://sunsite.org.uk/packages/mirror/But if you are reading this then you are probably too impatient so pleaseread on:  1. Get the latest version of mirror (see above) an extract it into a     suitable directory (e.g. $HOME/mirror or c:\mirror).  2. Check whether Perl is installed on the machine you are about to install     mirror on.  If it isn't then either get your support staff to install     perl or wander round http://www.perl.com/ and pull back a suitable copy     of perl and install it.  3. Run              perl install.pl here     If you want to install mirror as a command available to everyone on     your system thats harder and you'll have to read the full     documentation.  But for most users it is enough to run mirror from the     directory you extracted it into.  4. Edit the mirror.defaults to customise it for you system. You should     probably change:                 hostname                 local_dir                 remote_password                 mail_to  5. Create a file, using the name of the site as the file name, in the     packages directory for each site that you want to mirror.                 e.g. packages/ftp.some_useful_site.com  6. Edit the package file for each site you want to mirror     package=<package name>             comment=<something to remind you what it is your mirroring>             site=ftp.some_useful_site.com             # where to start pulling files back from             remote_dir=/pub             # where to put the files on your machine             local_dir=/public/Mirrors/ftp.some_useful_site.com/pub             #             # If you are under Wind*ws then use a line like this instead:             #       local_dir=c:\tmp\mirror             #     Keep <package name> simple like just mirror or FTP-Copier avoid spaces     and non-alphanumerics as much as possible.  7. Test mirror to see what it would do                     mirror -n packages/ftp.some_useful_site.com  8. Run mirror for real.  I suggest the first time you do                     mirror -d packages/ftp.some_useful_site.com     so you can see what mirror is actually doing.  If it appears to work OK     then you can drop the -d for future runs.