On Monday 03 March 2003 10:44 pm, Salane King wrote:
> 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%

HOWTO

http://cybercfo.gkmweb.com/rsync-mandrakeiso.html
-- 
Greg

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