On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 12:00:23PM -0400, Michael Willems wrote: > Any ways to make it faster by the way? A full mirror of 12 web sites > with no changes now takes 7 to 8 minutes. Mirror used to do it in a few > seconds.
It is probably related to the method of directory listing retrieval. lftp does LIST in each directory, while mirror.pl relied on server supporting LIST -R option. Besides, lftp gets exact timestamps using MDTM command, this also slows down mirror process. BTW, you can improve mirror time a bit using `set ftp:sync-mode off'. It will use protocol pipelining. Sometimes it does not work for various reasons, but if it works for you then it will be faster. -- Alexander.
