As lots of people have already recommended the same tool, I'll talk about its problems - note that I *still* recomend it; it's really great!
Well, problems - it doesn't cope with hard links. There are some ideas in the TODO list, but that's all. It doesn't cope well with files changing their type - directory to symlink and vice versa, for example. (That one might be easy to fix by just removing all symlinks prior to mirroring - that's how I fixed my private Debian mirror, a one-liner with find.) Hmm. I think that's all. The other problems I have aren't really mirror problems, but problems on the mirrored site - for example, files that arrive one byte shorter than ls tells me for some time (then it mysteriously fixes itself), or simply badly managed archives. I should learn Perl and extend it to fix some of these :-) Oh yes, I'm now using 2.8. 2.3 worked fine on my old Slackware box, but broke with Perl errors (probably a Perl4/Perl5 incompatibility) when I switched to Debian; I grabbed 2.8 and it simply ran. MfG Kai
