On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 11:16:17AM +0800, Peter Marriott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> [...]
> So I have a local directory /tmp/e-smith in which I have placed the file
> e-smith-4.1b2.iso (this is really beta1 renamed).
>
> The command I am thinking of using is:
> "rsync -az
> ftp.e-smith.org::/pub/e-smith/dev/e-smith-4.1beta2/iso/e-smith-4.1b2.iso
> /tmp/e-smith/e-smith-4.1b2.iso"
>
> Will this work?
That looks good to me. However, we have been having intermittent
problems with the -z option. If rsync dies, try again without the -z
option. I'd suggest -v to get some verbose information as well, and
possibly --progress.
To be sure, test on a small file from the dev area of the ftp site
first.
> Also any opinions on how large the download would be?
Without the compress option:
receiving file list ... done
e-smith-4.1b2.iso
wrote 117038 bytes read 58892485 bytes 470195.40 bytes/sec
total size is 321593344 speedup is 5.45
Gordon
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