[wellylug] How do I use rsync?

[Damon Lynch]

>On Fri, 2002-09-27 at 13:47, Jamie Dobbs wrote: Damon's post of the
>other day on how he 'rsync'd' the Mandrake 9
>install stuff has made me ask the question of 'how can I do this
>myself?'

rsync is useful for speeding up downloads when you already have a file
similar to the one you want to download: it will download only the
differences.

rsync -P --stats ftp.blah.com::/Mandrake/iso/i586/Mandrake9* .

look up the P option in the man page, its significance is not trivial! 
Also don't forget the dot at the end of the line.

You need to have a local file with the same name as the one you are
downloading, i.e. when I went from beta 3 to beta 4, I renamed my
existing beta 3 as beta 4, then did the rsync.

Also: the mirror must support rsync to begin with.  Paradise does not,
as far as I know.  To check: rsync ftp.blah.com::

Damon






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