On Mon, 2012-05-07 at 13:21 +0100, gvim wrote: > I currently use the script listed below, provided by Randall Schwartz, to > mirror CPAN locally as I spend a lot of time Perl-ing without an internet > connection. With CPAN now totalling around 2GB I'm wondering if there isn't a > more efficient method as this script doesn't use any kind of rsync method and > I end up just downloading the whole 2GB every time.
Why don't you use rsync? http://www.cpan.org/misc/how-to-mirror.html#rsync