Ben Reser wrote: > On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 08:21:17PM -0400, David Walser wrote: >> If you're using straight rsync, or even worse, an FTP mirroring >> program, you should be using rpmsync, which is now packaged and in >> contrib. It'll save you, and the server you're mirroring from, lots >> of bandwidth. > > Not really accurate. Since the rpm archive is compressed with gzip and > [...]
Another way it saves bandwidth is when packages are moved between sources, like contrib and main. rpmsync will mv them. rsync would delete them from one location, and download them cold to the other.
