sitecopy is a convenient way to mirror.
If you want to try thirdparty software give http://www.lyra.org/sitecopy/ a try.
They seem to be down, currently, but I haven't heard of any stop of this
project, and unfortunately freshmeat has an mysql-error, right now. But it *is* a
good tool: Install, configure, and forget it :)

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killerhippy