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Date:      Thu, 3 May 2001 06:33:18 +1000 (EST)
From:      jason andrade <jason@dstc.edu.au>
To:        Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
Cc:        Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>, freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ftp-master.freebsd.org is alive ... 
Message-ID:  <Pine.OSF.4.20.0105030631330.7520-100000@azure.dstc.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <200105022002.QAA96419@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>

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On Wed, 2 May 2001, Garrett Wollman wrote:

> The manual page suggests that it can do most of what I want it to do
> (although I don't relish rewriting all those regular expressions into
> globs so that `rsync' can handle them).  rsync still doesn't have
> useful gradations in verbosity, doesn't have a safety feature to limit

true

> the scope of deletions, and doesn't deal gracefully with connections

--max-delete=#

it's not as good as mirrors.. really needs to be written, but you can use
it to stop your whole site being wiped out.

> being refused or broken and permission errors on either end.  (The

this is true..

> server is also an incredible memory hog, but I assume you have already
> crossed that bridge.)

it's much less of a memory hog than mirror.pl.. but things like omi/spegla
are better at memory usage.  it also chews a lot more memory with --delete
unfortunately (about 3 times more i believe ?)


regards,

-jason


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