Re: [Cooker] Getting rid of mirror Junk??

[Nora Etukudo]

On Sun, Dec 19, 1999 at 03:24:09PM -0600, Jim Bradley wrote:

 I have mirrored the cooker site on a local hard drive with wget. I'd
 like to burn a CD, but I've found that as I've continued to upgrade my
 mirror, it's grown to the point that it won't fit on a CD. Does anyone
 have a script that will delete all of the old files, while maintaining
 what is currently on the ftp site. I'd just as soon not have to go
 through and delete files by hand.

If you do a real "mirror", you have no junk.
If you do a copy, you get more and more junk each time.

In the past I used the program 'mirror-2.9' with de 'do_deletes' option
set to 'yes'. Now, I prefer the program 'rsync-2.3.1', eg. something like

   rsync -rltDuz --rsh ssh --delete --force --verbose \
  rsync://rpmfind.net/linux/MandrakeCooker/cooker \
  /archiv/Linux/distributions/mandrake

With this, the remote and local "cooker"-trees are always exactly the
same, right after syncing.

Liebe Grüße, Nora.
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Re: [Cooker] Getting rid of mirror Junk??

[Jim Bradley]

** Reply to message from Nora Etukudo [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, 20 Dec 1999
19:36:55 +0100

 
 If you do a real "mirror", you have no junk.
 If you do a copy, you get more and more junk each time.

That is quite true. I'd just used the "wget -rm ftp://whatever" command that
was mentioned on the cooker web page, as a means of "mirroring." It indeed only
copies the files and subdirectories, but doesn't actually mirror the site, and
with continued usage, the "mirrored" site continues to grow and grow and grow.


 
 In the past I used the program 'mirror-2.9' with de 'do_deletes' option
 set to 'yes'. Now, I prefer the program 'rsync-2.3.1', eg. something like
 ...

I'll take a look at these.  Thanks for your help.



Jim Bradley -- Maryville, MO USA ([EMAIL PROTECTED])