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From: Guido van Rooij <guido@gvr.org>
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Subject: Re: mirroring
In-Reply-To: <199806242305.JAA00850@henry.cs.adfa.oz.au> from Warren Toomey at "Jun 25, 98 09:05:06 am"
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Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 20:18:07 +0200 (MET DST)
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Warren Toomey wrote:
> In article by Guido van Rooij:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I just discovered that the ducth mirror site no longer is up to date.
> > Somehow there must have gone something wrong with the error script. Anyway,
> > I used to mirror the stuff with:
> > rsync --client -avz --exclude '*.tar.gz' www.freebsd.org:www $HOME/data
> > 
> > However, rsync was replaced by another version on that system. It
> > no longer (or not yet!?) supports the --client option.
> > 
> > Now, what is the correct way to mirror the www tree?
> 
> Get the old rsync client from
> 
> ftp://minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au/rsync
> 
> Build it, rename it as oldrsync, and use this version!
> 

I just did that. At least it recognizes the options. Apparently, freefall
(www.freebsd.org) does no longer support rsync?

-Guido