mirroring was Re: [plug] What Linux CDs to have available?

[Mark Anthony J. Mercado]

On Fri, 6 Jul 2001, Federico Sevilla III wrote:

> Would anyone have a decent tool to recommend that I can use to synchronize
> a local repository of updates with the entire directory tree of updates of
> Mandrake/RedHat/whatever-else? I can probably use wget, but I don't know
> how efficient a solution that will be. I don't know how good rsync is, and
> I don't know if there are any other utilities available. 

i'd recommend rsync. it's fairly simple to implement and I'm using it to
sync with slackware-current .

what I like in rsync you download only the changes (like patch) and not
the whole file itself.

-mark

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