RE: [Cooker] Mirroring tool with reget?
Does rsync work with any ftp server, or do most mirrors have rsyncd available? No, I believe it only works with rsync-capable servers, but there are quite a few of those. I have a copy of beta2 iso (takes me a day to download on isdn). Can I make a copy of the CD onto the hard drive and rsync that directory? Example? That would probably save you a considerable download, yes. rsync only downloads the changed files, so it should help. Thanks, I am new to rsync. Welcome to the new world. =) Don Head [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Linux Mentor, LCA, Network+ [1 314 692-1942] Wave Technologies, Inc. [1 800 826-4640 x1942] [AIM - Don Wave][ICQ - 18804935][Yahoo - Don_Wave]
Re: [Cooker] Mirroring tool with reget?
Don Head wrote:
Does rsync work with any ftp server, or do
most mirrors have rsyncd available?
No, I believe it only works with rsync-capable
servers, but there are quite a few of those.
I think otherwise, but if the server is not rsync capable, you must
use a different rsync call syntax (see man rsync) and the server must
have rsh or ssh which rsync probable uses to uploas an rsync server
(?).
I have a copy of beta2 iso (takes me a day to
download on isdn). Can I make a copy of the CD
onto the hard drive and rsync that directory?
Example?
That would probably save you a considerable
download, yes. rsync only downloads the changed
files, so it should help.
rsync does more than that! Where the name matches but the size or
timestamp do not, it uses a very clever algorithm to download only
the differences inside the file and patch them into the local copy.
This can be VERY quick.
If you do a tree copy to the hd, then you won't find a matching tree
on the mirror to rsync on. If you want an iso CD image file, then
you should try 'dd if=/dev/cdrom of=hd file' from the cdrom device
to an *.iso file on your hd (warning: I have never tried this!) and
rsync on that at the server. I do not believe that the reverse ('dd
of=/dev/cdrom if=hd file') process works because /dev/cdrom is a
read only device - you must use cdrecord to write a CD.
--
Regards,
Ron. [in AU, busy 625-line-PAL-TV-watching the Olympics]
Re: [Cooker] Mirroring tool with reget?
I use this on sunsite.uio.no and also these days with "ftp problems" with rsync sunsite.uio.no works pretty well, you can put a script like that in /etc/cron.hourly (or use /var/spool/cron if you want more flexibility) (it recovery from partial downloads) #!/bin/sh rsync -av --partial --progress --stats --delete --exclude=7.2beta/ sunsite.uio.no::Mandrake-devel /MIRROR/Mandrake-devel These are stats for my last daily-update started today at 08:01 CEST Number of files: 5926 Number of files transferred: 638 Total file size: 3439648191 bytes Total transferred file size: 462928634 bytes Literal data: 424270218 bytes Matched data: 38658416 bytes File list size: 177437 Total bytes written: 652455 Total bytes read: 424744051 wrote 652455 bytes read 424744051 bytes 286173.23 bytes/sec total size is 3439648191 speedup is 8.09 ...;o) On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Alexander Skwar wrote: Hi! Currently I'm using fmirror to mirror Cooker for myself. How do I use reget (resuming downloads where they stopped) with fmirror? Or, if fmirror does not support this, what other mirror tool should I use which supports this feature? Alexander Skwar -- - Franco Silvestro c/o CeSIA - Universita' degli Studi di Bologna
Antwort: Re: [Cooker] Mirroring tool with reget?
sunsite.uio.no supports rsync? Nice to know! Why is this not listed on the Cooker web page? Franco Silvestro [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 28.09.2000 09:01:41 Bitte antworten an [EMAIL PROTECTED] An: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED], Cooker Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kopie: (Blindkopie: Alexander Skwar/de/delphiauto) Thema:Re: [Cooker] Mirroring tool with reget? I use this on sunsite.uio.no and also these days with "ftp problems" with rsync sunsite.uio.no works pretty well, you can put a script like that in /etc/cron.hourly (or use /var/spool/cron if you want more flexibility) (it recovery from partial downloads) #!/bin/sh rsync -av --partial --progress --stats --delete --exclude=7.2beta/ sunsite.uio.no::Mandrake-devel /MIRROR/Mandrake-devel These are stats for my last daily-update started today at 08:01 CEST Number of files: 5926 Number of files transferred: 638 Total file size: 3439648191 bytes Total transferred file size: 462928634 bytes Literal data: 424270218 bytes Matched data: 38658416 bytes File list size: 177437 Total bytes written: 652455 Total bytes read: 424744051 wrote 652455 bytes read 424744051 bytes 286173.23 bytes/sec total size is 3439648191 speedup is 8.09 ...;o) On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Alexander Skwar wrote: Hi! Currently I'm using fmirror to mirror Cooker for myself. How do I use reget (resuming downloads where they stopped) with fmirror? Or, if fmirror does not support this, what other mirror tool should I use which supports this feature? Alexander Skwar -- - Franco Silvestro c/o CeSIA - Universita' degli Studi di Bologna
Re: [Cooker] Mirroring tool with reget?
Alexander Skwar wrote: Currently I'm using fmirror to mirror Cooker for myself. How do I use reget (resuming downloads where they stopped) with fmirror? Or, if fmirror does not support this, what other mirror tool should I use which supports this feature? I suggest you look into using rsync. -- - Antony Suter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) "Examiner" openpgp:71ADFC87 - "And how do you store the nuclear equivalent of the universal solvent?"
RE: [Cooker] Mirroring tool with reget?
2 questions: Does rsync work with any ftp server, or do most mirrors have rsyncd available? I have a copy of beta2 iso (takes me a day to download on isdn). Can I make a copy of the CD onto the hard drive and rsync that directory? Example? Thanks, I am new to rsync. --- Edward J. Cooley - President Strategic Concepts, Inc. 501-271-7400 Fax: 271-7401 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.strategy5.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Antony Suter Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2000 11:45 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Cooker] Mirroring tool with reget? Alexander Skwar wrote: Currently I'm using fmirror to mirror Cooker for myself. How do I use reget (resuming downloads where they stopped) with fmirror? Or, if fmirror does not support this, what other mirror tool should I use which supports this feature? I suggest you look into using rsync. -- - Antony Suter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) "Examiner" openpgp:71ADFC87 - "And how do you store the nuclear equivalent of the universal solvent?"
Re: Antwort: Re: [Cooker] Mirroring tool with reget?
On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 09:04:34AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sunsite.uio.no supports rsync? Nice to know! Why is this not listed on the Cooker web page? Because those of us who have been using it reliably didn't want you to know about it and slow down our download speeds evil grin. -- Ben Reser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ben.reser.org "Heuristics are bug ridden by definition. If they didn't have bugs, then they'd be algorithms."
Re: Antwort: Re: [Cooker] Mirroring tool with reget?
On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 01:37:54PM -0700, Ben Reser wrote: Because those of us who have been using it reliably didn't want you to know about it and slow down our download speeds evil grin. Okay, that's a very fine reason. But why do you point out that uio.no has rsync in public, and not in a private mail? *G* Alexander Skwar -- Homepage: http://www.digitalprojects.com | http://www.dp.ath.cx Sichere Mail? Mail an [EMAIL PROTECTED] fuer GnuPG Keys ICQ:7328191
Re: [Cooker] Mirroring tool with reget?
I user mirrordir Works great! :) Simple to use as well. (Come with Madrake 7.1) On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Alexander Skwar wrote: Hi! Currently I'm using fmirror to mirror Cooker for myself. How do I use reget (resuming downloads where they stopped) with fmirror? Or, if fmirror does not support this, what other mirror tool should I use which supports this feature? Alexander Skwar -- --- Bryan Whitehead Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WorkE: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
