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 . ******** There was some discussion about using -z in the command above, to allow gz commpression, but Charlie said it _might_ cause problems - Craig ******** 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] http://www.e-smith.org (development) http://www.e-smith.com (corporate) Phone: +1 (613) 368 4376 or 564 8000 Fax: +1 (613) 564 7739 e-smith, inc. 1500-150 Metcalfe St, Ottawa, ON K2P 1P1 Canada -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
