Messages in this thread | | | From | Mark Watts <> | Subject | Re: ftp.kernel.org | Date | Fri, 28 May 2004 09:41:38 +0100 |
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> On Thu, 27 May 2004, Martin J. Bligh wrote: > >They switched to vsftpd very recently ... presumably then. > > That would explain it. The default is to turn it off. > > >Why would you mirror via ftp, instead of rsync anyway? > > I have more control with mirror. And I've been using mirror for > *ahem* a decade. I've been using rsync for mirroring debian, but > it's slow and often fails to complete. Mirror has never let me > down ('tho it has deleted entire archives before *grin*)
Agreed - fmirror is so much more reliable than rsync (imho) that it makes rsync into a worst-case option for retrieving files.
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