On Monday 03 March 2003 22:22, Damon Lynch wrote: > On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 16:07, James Sparenberg wrote: > > On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 18:58, Damon Lynch wrote: > > > Question: how come rsync is not more popular? It seems like a > > > wonderful protocol to me, but it seems to get little publicity among > > > non-experts. Does it need a special graphical tool to make it more > > > popular? > > > > > > Damon > > > > Damon from what I've seen it needs more sites that support it. Those > > that do severely limit it.(ie the number of connections allowed) you are > > right though... great tool. > > That's my experience also. Why is this? Maybe CPU costs more than > bandwidth for the servers? I assume they all use rsync to actually > mirror their Mandrake content. I wonder if the rsync authors have a > cache in mind to handle the CPU side of things. > > Damon
Here is a great trick for rsync. update the name of the old iso files to the new name then use rsync to update it. it cuts the download time by about 50%
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