This server will be unreachable for about an hour between 14:00 and 17:00 german time (12:00 - 15:00 UTC) on Thursday, September 10. Reason for the downtime is general maintenance work.

Update 2026-09-10 17:15 (15:15 UTC): Maintenance has finished. Our mirrors might still need a few hours to catch up.

There are currently problems with our mirror of opensuse.

Since June 08, it has been having problems staying up-to-date.

This is caused by infrastructure problems on opensuses end - their main upstream server delivers abysmal transfer rates (not only to us). Unfortunately, transfer rates of about 2 Megabytes per second are not really enough to keep in sync with the rate of changes that opensuse has.

We have tried to mitigate the situation by pulling updates from other sources, but these are incomplete, so we’re back to the official source.

The total outgoing traffic of ftp.fau.de increased from 10.06 PiB in 2024 to 10.22 PiB in 2025, a below-noise-level increase of only 1.5%.

The percentage of IPv6 traffic increased marginally to 30% (3.02 PiB), after 29% in 2024, 26% in 2023, 26% in 2022, 27% in 2021, 27% in 2020, 25% in 2019, 22% in 2018, 22% in 2017, 14% in 2016 and 11% in 2015.

The total outgoing traffic of ftp.fau.de increased from 8.51 PiB in 2023 to 10.06 PiB in 2024, an increase of only 18%.

The percentage of IPv6 traffic increased slightly to 29% (2.88 PiB), after 26% in 2023, 26% in 2022, 27% in 2021, 27% in 2020, 25% in 2019, 22% in 2018, 22% in 2017, 14% in 2016 and 11% in 2015.

The total outgoing traffic of ftp.fau.de increased from 6.57 PiB in 2022 to 8.51 PiB in 2023, an increase of 30%.

The percentage of IPv6 traffic stagnated at 26% (2.23 PiB), after 26% in 2022, 27% in 2021, 27% in 2020, 25% in 2019, 22% in 2018, 22% in 2017, 14% in 2016 and 11% in 2015.

The total outgoing traffic of ftp.fau.de increased from 5.04 PiB in 2021 to 6.57 PiB in 2022, an increase of 30%.

The percentage of IPv6 traffic dropped slightly, it is now at 26% (1.68 PiB), after 27% in 2021, 27% in 2020, 25% in 2019, 22% in 2018, 22% in 2017, 14% in 2016 and 11% in 2015.

The total outgoing traffic of ftp.fau.de increased from 4.12 PiB in 2020 to 5.04 PiB in 2021, an increase of 22%.

The percentage of IPv6 traffic stagnated, with 27% (1.36 PiB), after 27% in 2020, 25% in 2019, 22% in 2018, 22% in 2017, 14% in 2016 and 11% in 2015.

It seems that I have not posted the traffic stats for 2020 yet. Well, better late than never, so here they are.

The total outgoing traffic of ftp.fau.de increased from 3.52 PiB in 2019 to 4.12 PiB in 2020, an increase of 17%.

The percentage of IPv6 traffic increased a tiny bit again, to 27% (1.13 PB), after 25% in 2019, 22% in 2018, 22% in 2017, 14% in 2016 and 11% in 2015.

On June 03, 2020, at around 16:15 local time (14:15 UTC), disk accesses on ftp.fau.de became extremely slow. Less than an hour later, any attempts to access the disks with the ftp-data on it failed. Investigation revealed that the big RAID controller that manages all the external disk enclosures for the data had stopped responding completely. While the failed controller could temporarily be brought back by a powercycle at around 18:00 local time (16:00 UTC), it failed again within 10 minutes of booting the machine. Unfortunately, there was no compatible replacement for the failed controller onsite. A replacement has been ordered and shipped, but has not arrived yet. As all parcel services are severely overloaded due to the Corona crisis, it is currently unclear when it will arrive.

The total traffic of ftp.fau.de increased from 3.22 PB in 2018 to 3.52 PB in 2019, an unusually small increase of only 9%.

The percentage of IPv6 traffic increased a tiny bit again, to 25% (0.87 PB), after 22% in 2018, 22% in 2017, 14% in 2016 and 11% in 2015.