Lieven, You're welcome, glad it helped, and thanks for your notes! I'm going to make an effort to revise the document (and incorporate your notes) over the next week or so, and then I'll let you know and, ask, if you have time, to review the instructions and see if you notice any remaining problems or have any other comments. (My next rewrite will probably be to make it technically correct and much more concise, then I'll work on readability, splitting into two versions, one that I will call ...Beginner (for newbies) and one that I will call ...Reminder (the very concise version for people who have used rsync before and just need a brief reminder). I understand your note about opening port 873 through the firewall, but need to refresh my memory on --compare-dest. I apparently did not include it in my notes, but I eventually found out (IIRC) that --compare-dest will not do one of the things I was hoping for -- that is serve as an alternate source of raw corrupted file that rsync could work from -- IIRC, rsync can work either from a specified local copy, or the --compare-dest, but can't handle both at the same time. (I've reread my notes, but can't find the complete explanation on that point.) BTW, out of curiosity, did you have any (much) trouble dealing with editing the twiki? Have you used a wiki or twiki before? Randy Kramer Lieven Van Acker wrote: > > Hi Randy, > > thank you. This is saving me some bandwith at least! I tried this and > added some notes to the wiki. > > BTW: the other dutch mirror - ftp.surfnet.nl - has the same corrupted > CD2-image. > > Lieven > > Randy Kramer wrote: > > > > Lieven, > > > > If you find a noncorrupted CD2 image, you might be able to rsync it > > instead of redownloading the whole thing. > > > > I wrote some notes when I used it to correct a MandrakeFreq download > > (for Mandrake 7.2) -- see: > > http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/edit/Test/RsyncingALargeFile > > > > It worked well for me after I got through the learning curve. > > > > (The notes are pretty bad -- I recorded them while I was learning and > > had some problems. I believe the most recent notes are on the top half > > of the page. (I hurriedly translated these from swiki markup to twiki > > markup today, I never did a proper edit of the notes for content and > > readability. If you try rsync and have any comments about the notes, > > please let me know (or change the notes yourself -- that's why wikis > > exist). > > > > Hope this helps, > > Randy Kramer > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://wwww.mandrakestore.com
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