A quick reminder for those without the archive.

Craig.

-----Original Message-----
From: Charlie Brady [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, 21 December 2000 11:29 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [e-smith-devinfo] 4.1beta2 is out!!



On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Damien Curtain wrote:

> damienc@organism damienc >cp e-smith-4.1b1.iso e-smith-4.1b2.iso

This is creating a file called e-smith-4.1b2.iso which is a bit like the
desired image file.

> damienc@organism damienc >rsync -avn ftp.e-smith.org::e-smith . | \
> grep e-smith-4.1b2.iso
> e-smith/dev/e-smith-4.1beta2/iso/e-smith-4.1b2.iso

This is listing the correct file name and pathname to fetch from.

> damienc@organism damienc >rsync --archive --progress --stats \
> --verbose --block-size=8192 \
> ftp.e-smith.org::e-smith/e-smith/dev/\
> e-smith-4.1beta2/iso/e-smith-4.1b2.iso .

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There was some discussion about using -z in the command above, to allow gz
commpression,
but Charlie said it _might_ cause problems - Craig
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This is using rsync to fetch the required file.

> wrote 234151 bytes  read 56975264 bytes  21192.60 bytes/sec
> total size is 321593344  speedup is 5.62

This said that you create a file of 321MB, but only read 57MB of data to
do so.

> little bit quicker than downloading it via ftp

Nearly six times faster! :-)

Thanks Damien!!

  Charlie Brady                         [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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