On 11/6/19 11:43 AM, Ben Koenig wrote: > You might want to consider using Alien Bob's scripts to handle the rsync > command. > http://www.slackware.com/~alien/ > > But.. for a quick and dirty solution the following should work > > > The syntax is > rsync [opts] [remote path] [local path] > > While people have strong opinions on this one, here's the command I use: > $ rsync -rvh https://rsync.osuosl.org/pub/slackware/slackware64-14.2/ > /path/to/local/folder/slackware64-14.2/ > > Make sure you create a slackware64-14.2 folder to put it in and specify the > full path to it. My approach is unusually explicit since I hate getting > tripped up by rsync's interpretation of / > Pay attention to the / at the end of the paths. Rysnc is very particular > about that when copying folders or their contents and if you aren't careful > it puts files in unexpected subdirectories. That's why you want to wrap it > in a script, like the one I linked above.
It looks like OSU is a primary mirror for Slackware, so rsync access to it may not be available to it for mortals. At least my attempts failed. There are instructions on mirroring on the Slackware site. <https://mirrors.slackware.com/guidelines/> You are probably better off using Ben's instructions, but here's the command I tried. This is based on the Slackware instructions. It seemed to work, but I killed it quickly as I'm not interested in filling my disk. YMMV rsync -havP --no-o --no-g --safe-links --timeout=60 --contimeout=30 rsync://slackware.cs.utah.edu/slackware/slackware64-14.2/ /scratch/mutt/ I chose the Utah mirror somewhat at random out of the rsync mirrors listed here: <https://mirrors.slackware.com/mirrorlist/> galen -- Galen Seitz [email protected] _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
