---
name: "runmirrors"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "ftpsync"
version: "20180513+nmu1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/runmirrors"
---

# runmirrors(1)

Trigger downstream mirrors

## NAME

runmirrors - Trigger downstream mirrors

## SYNOPSIS

**runmirrors**

## DESCRIPTION

**runmirrors** is part of the ftpsync suite for mirroring Debian and Debian-like repositories of packages. As there are way too many mirrors of Debian to populate them all from the machine that generates the archive (“ftp-master”), mirrors are organized in a tree-shaped hierarchy. Thus, every mirror has exactly one upstream from which it syncs, and each mirror can have any number of downstreams which in turn sync from it.

## SEE ALSO

[**ftpsync**(1)](/ftpsync/1.md), [**runmirrors.conf**(5)](/runmirrors.conf/5.md), [**runmirrors.mirror**(5)](/runmirrors.mirror/5.md)

## AUTHORS

Debian mirror team.