Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: ftp.kernel.org | Date | Sat, 29 May 2004 17:05:48 -0400 | From | Horst von Brand <> |
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Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@lug-owl.de> said:
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> Disagree! Mirroring with ftp is possibly quite a waste of bandwidth (at > least in case partial file transfers etc.),
mirror is smarter than that...
> and IIRC you can't reliably > mirror symlinks (IIRC the "ls"/"dir" output is only ment to be > human-readable), hardlinks and the like.
So? A script that is smart enough can figure them out too...
> If you see aborts [with rsync], properly set the timeout parameter...
With mirror you can use file patterns to include/exclude (e.g. get just the .bz2 versions (not redundant .gz)), only consider "new" files (i.e., exclude anything more than a week old), etc. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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