diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 5e580f34..42082e46 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -2,6 +2,11 @@
 
 !bin
 #!bin/**
+!bin/alpine.sh
+!bin/arch.sh
+!bin/artix.s!bin/alpine.sh
+!bin/arch.sh
+!bin/artix.sh
 !bin/eagle.sh
 !bin/forksync.sh
 !bin/gnucash.sh
diff --git a/bin/alpine.sh b/bin/alpine.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..3bbd0ddb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bin/alpine.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env sh
+
+# make sure we never run 2 rsync at the same time
+lockfile="/tmp/alpine-mirror.lock"
+if [ -z "$flock" ] ; then
+  exec env flock=1 flock -n $lockfile "$0" "$@"
+fi
+
+src=rsync://rsync.alpinelinux.org/alpine/ 
+dest=/data/alpine/
+
+# uncomment this to exclude old v2.x branches
+exclude="--exclude v2.* --exclude v3.0 --exclude v3.1 --exclude v3.2 --exclude v3.2 --exclude v3.3 --exclude v3.4 --exclude v3.5 --exclude v3.6 --exclude v3.7 --exclude aarch64/ --exclude armhf/ --exclude armv7/ --exclude ppc64le/ --exclude s390x/ --exclude x86/"
+
+mkdir -p "$dest"
+/usr/bin/rsync \
+        --archive \
+        --update \
+        --hard-links \
+        --delete \
+        --delete-after \
+        --delay-updates \
+        --timeout=600 \
+        --delete-excluded \
+        --verbose \
+        $exclude \
+        "$src" "$dest"
+
diff --git a/bin/arch.sh b/bin/arch.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..65232ead
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bin/arch.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,77 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+# This is a simple mirroring script. To save bandwidth it first checks a
+# timestamp via HTTP and only runs rsync when the timestamp differs from the
+# local copy. As of 2016, a single rsync run without changes transfers roughly
+# 6MiB of data which adds up to roughly 250GiB of traffic per month when rsync
+# is run every minute. Performing a simple check via HTTP first can thus save a
+# lot of traffic.
+
+# Directory where the repo is stored locally. Example: /srv/repo
+target="/data/arch"
+
+# Directory where files are downloaded to before being moved in place.
+# This should be on the same filesystem as $target, but not a subdirectory of $target.
+# Example: /srv/tmp
+tmp="/data/tmp"
+
+# Lockfile path
+lock="/tmp/syncrepo.lck"
+
+# If you want to limit the bandwidth used by rsync set this.
+# Use 0 to disable the limit.
+# The default unit is KiB (see man rsync /--bwlimit for more)
+bwlimit=0
+
+# The source URL of the mirror you want to sync from.
+# If you are a tier 1 mirror use rsync.archlinux.org, for example like this:
+# rsync://rsync.archlinux.org/ftp_tier1
+# Otherwise chose a tier 1 mirror from this list and use its rsync URL:
+# https://www.archlinux.org/mirrors/
+source_url='rsync://mirror.23media.de/archlinux/'
+
+# An HTTP(S) URL pointing to the 'lastupdate' file on your chosen mirror.
+# If you are a tier 1 mirror use: http://rsync.archlinux.org/lastupdate
+# Otherwise use the HTTP(S) URL from your chosen mirror.
+lastupdate_url='http://mirror.23media.de/archlinux/lastupdate'
+
+#### END CONFIG
+
+[ ! -d "${target}" ] && mkdir -p "${target}"
+[ ! -d "${tmp}" ] && mkdir -p "${tmp}"
+
+exec 9>"${lock}"
+flock -n 9 || exit
+
+rsync_cmd() {
+ local -a cmd=(rsync -rtlH --safe-links --delete-after ${VERBOSE} "--timeout=600" "--contimeout=60" -p \
+  --delay-updates --no-motd "--temp-dir=${tmp}")
+
+ if stty &>/dev/null; then
+  cmd+=(-h -v --progress)
+ else
+  cmd+=(--quiet)
+ fi
+
+ if ((bwlimit>0)); then
+  cmd+=("--bwlimit=$bwlimit")
+ fi
+
+ "${cmd[@]}" "$@"
+}
+
+
+# if we are called without a tty (cronjob) only run when there are changes
+if ! tty -s && [[ -f "$target/lastupdate" ]] && diff -b <(curl -Ls "$lastupdate_url") "$target/lastupdate" >/dev/null; then
+ # keep lastsync file in sync for statistics generated by the Arch Linux website
+ rsync_cmd "$source_url/lastsync" "$target/lastsync"
+ exit 0
+fi
+
+rsync_cmd \
+ --exclude='*.links.tar.gz*' \
+ --exclude='/other' \
+ --exclude='/sources' \
+ "${source_url}" \
+ "${target}"
+
diff --git a/bin/artix.sh b/bin/artix.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..d82f4ece
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bin/artix.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+
+rsync -auvPH --delete-after "rsync://mirror1.artixlinux.org/artix-linux/*" /data/artix/repos/
+rsync -auvPH --delete-after "rsync://download.artixlinux.org/iso/*" /data/artix/iso/
+