Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 28 May 2004 10:55:23 +0200 | From | Jan-Benedict Glaw <> | Subject | Re: ftp.kernel.org |
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On Fri, 2004-05-28 09:41:38 +0100, Mark Watts <m.watts@eris.qinetiq.com> wrote in message <200405280941.38784.m.watts@eris.qinetiq.com>: > > On Thu, 27 May 2004, Martin J. Bligh wrote: > > 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.
Disagree! Mirroring with ftp is possibly quite a waste of bandwidth (at least in case partial file transfers etc.), and IIRC you can't reliably mirror symlinks (IIRC the "ls"/"dir" output is only ment to be human-readable), hardlinks and the like.
If you see aborts, properly set the timeout parameter...
MfG, JBG (a happy rsync user)
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