Ron,
Thanks! I will be modifying the
http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/RsyncingALargeFileBeginner page
to incorporate your comments, first verbatim and later refactored. I
plan to list your name as a contributor. In fact, I'm going to insert
your comments now and then come back.
If you
Randy Kramer wrote:
...
Part of the issue is that the directory must be specified relative to
something. I think it is relative to something like the rsync working
directory, which may be different than the ftp working directory. Thus
the path you specify in an rsync command may need to
nDiScReEt wrote:
I had to do the same thing. I removed pub from the directory in order
to get it to read from carroll as well. Why this is the case is beyond
my understanding at this time. I will check into eventually after I
update this computer to LM8.2beta3 Cooker. It works great on my
Brandon Dorman wrote:
Ok, I got to 515mb this time on Beta3 CD 1 and it failed. So I went to
your page. I got stuck when it says about must start with a module,
and I can't figure it out. Your explanation isn't the most clear,
sorry.
my command right now is:
rsync -a -vvv --progress
Well I guess I'll have to figure it out another time. I just kept
trying to resume the download and eventually it finished. Are ther
md5 checksums I can get to verify their integrity? I didn't see them on
the mandrake download site. Well I guess when I write them to cd it
will tell me too?
Brandon,
Thanks for your comment! Yes, my explanation is not very clear,
partially because I don't understand that point very well myself.
I think the text in issue is the second bullet under this:
http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/RsyncingALargeFileBeginner#Other_notes.
The reference
Ron Stodden wrote:
How about trying a --partial parameter. This lets you pick up the last
download from where it was interrupted.
Hello Ron,
I know you are very familiar with rsync, so I know you know this, but I
am very cautious about warning people that using the --partial parameter
can
Ok, the easiest is to use rsync like an ls command and navigate to the
directory you want if you do not know the path up front:
e.g.,
rsync rsync://ftp.uninett.no/ will list all the top level modules
(directories) available. Note the last / and no target directory -
without this nothing is
The way around this is to keep a copy of the iso and tail -c
+no_of_Bytes_needed+1 copy.iso rsync_truncated.iso test this out
first as its late and I am too tired to check the syntax and test it!,
but it works a treat.
BillK
On Fri, 2002-02-22 at 22:21, Randy Kramer wrote:
Ron Stodden
Bill Kenworthy wrote:
The way around this is to keep a copy of the iso and tail -c
+no_of_Bytes_needed+1 copy.iso rsync_truncated.iso test this out
first as its late and I am too tired to check the syntax and test it!,
but it works a treat.
Bill,
I've taken the liberty of adding this to
Bill,
Thanks! The first part sounds very much like what I did, but it would
have taken a while to remember it.
I will add some (or all) of this to the same page I mentioned in my
previous email. As before, if you have any comments let me know.
regards,
Randy Kramer
Bill Kenworthy wrote:
Randy Kramer wrote:
Ron Stodden wrote:
How about trying a --partial parameter. This lets you pick up the last
download from where it was interrupted.
Hello Ron,
I know you are very familiar with rsync, so I know you know this, but I
am very cautious about warning people that using
Ok, I got to 515mb this time on Beta3 CD 1 and it failed. So I went to
your page. I got stuck when it says about must start with a module,
and I can't figure it out. Your explanation isn't the most clear,
sorry.
my command right now is:
rsync -a -vvv --progress
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