Amos Shapira wrote:
> > (imagine - all the major mirror sites use rsync to get updates from
> > the main sites - these are virtually never text files).
> And rarely enjoy the benefits from rsync either, but, again, so be
> it :-)
>
>
> I'd guess so, since virtually all of the files they transfer are new
> instead of changed files, but see, for instance,
> http://www.debian.org/mirror/ftpmirror#how
> <http://www.debian.org/mirror/ftpmirror#how>:
>
> The recommended method of mirroring is with the so called anonftpsync
> <http://www.debian.org/mirror/anonftpsync> script via anonymous rsync
> <http://packages.debian.org/stable/net/rsync>.
> Note: while wget and other ftp-tools seem to work well, there are some
> issues. We strongly recommend to use rsync.
>
> Anyone care to explain why is that?
They prefer every to use the same script as it might simplify things for
everyone, like making sure mirror use the same option and don't create
non exact mirrors. Such an example might be a mirror with different time
stamp on the files.
wget and ftp tools will just cause more traffic for both servers, as
they usually can only append to files which were changed, things usually
requires re-downloading the whole file. So they recommend rsync.
I can say I use rsync for all the mirrors on mirror.{hamakor, isoc,
iglu}.org.il.
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