On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 12:57:24PM -0500, Matthew Carpenter wrote: >anonymous ftp: where the site is full most of the time. wget allows you to >set a retry count (-t) which will continue to try a given URL.
>Recovery: Using the -c option allows you to recover from failed downloads. >Mirroring: wget has special options specifically for mirroring other sites. >Recursion: wget, being very good at mirroring, has many recursion options >(downloading directory structures, not just files). Assuming that the remote site has rsync set up to run as a server, then rsync allows all of the above, probably more efficiently when mirroring sites. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 http://www.celestial.com/ "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use." -- Galileo Galilei _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
