On Monday 15 March 2004 22:26, Charlie M. wrote: > rsync -avrt --progress --delete --exclude MandrakeMove-i586.iso > ftp.uninett.no::Mandrake/Mandrake/iso/ > /archive/backup/nanook/downloads/Mandrakelinux-10.0-Community/ > > That's all one line. > > The reason the --exclude flag is in there is probably obvious, you don't > need MandrakeMove. Or the md5sum.asc for it but I'm leaving the reader > something to do for themselves. <g> The reason(s) for using rsync instead > of anything else are IMHO: > > you only actually download the differences between the files, so less > (much) bandwidth and less (much) time involved; > > it's one way, download only. Sort of anyway, rsync reads everything on both > ends but only downloads what's required to synchronize the directories. > Rather than upload and download as with bit torrent. Again less bandwidth; > > Less chance of file corruption due to restarts. Maybe. > > HTH > Charlie
Charlie, Indulge me, but what's the "--delete" flag good for other than saving diskspace? That way if the rsync job hangs or is lost someway you lose everything.....it does leave a nice clean slate though;) Good luck, HarM -- Registered Linux User #197998 FSF Associate Member #901 ICQ #146191606 Mandrake HowTo's & more: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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