I maintain a mirror of ftp.debian.org for internal use (we've got several linux machines), however, the last several times I've started to run mirror its reported:
compare directories (src 8356, dest 32957) I'm not too keen on letting 3/4 of the mirror get toasted, so I've killed the mirror before it could start its delete phase. After investigating a little, it seems that most of the missing files where in the WebPages hierarchy that is empty now. Is this the new policy or an accident or...? I guess I don't mind the loss of the bug tracking system, etc.. but the list archives were nice to have. Thanks, Brad