Now that apache.org is a FreeBSD box, we are beginning to explore using a program called "cvsup". Its basis is a program called "sup", which essentially works as a remote-file-synchronization program; it allows a site to maintain a mirror of a remote file tree in a very efficient manner. "cvsup" is an extension of this to use a CVS tree (when it exists) to allow for "diffs" to be sent when a file changes, rather than resending the whole file. Thus, all in all it would be a more bandwidth-efficient method of updating one of your mirror sites from the source.
Is this a program you're familiar with? Would you consider using it? More importantly, if anonymous FTP were to be discontinued (except for the programs in /dist of course) would any of you *not* be able to use cvsup? Binaries for other platforms, as well as more information, can be found at ftp://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/CVSup/ Brian --=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-- "it's a big world, with lots of records to play."-sig [EMAIL PROTECTED]
