Date: Thu, 03 May 2001 02:12:44 -0700 From: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> To: Daniel Lang <dl@leo.org> Cc: hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ftp-master method Message-ID: <20010503091244.873A1380A@overcee.netplex.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20010503100142.B94748@atrbg11.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
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Daniel Lang wrote:
> Dear folks,
>
> Peter Wemm wrote on Wed, May 02, 2001 at 10:10:20PM -0700:
> [..]
> > The command you probably want to do a full mirror is:
> > rsync -vaz --delete rsync://ftp-master.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/ ~ftp/pub/FreeBS
D/
>
> I would suggest, maybe not to use the -z option for two reasons:
>
> - Many of the files are already compressed, thus yielding
> no advantage, but CPU load
> - At least the iso images won't sync with -z:
> [..]
> receiving file list ... done
> ISO-IMAGES/
> ISO-IMAGES/4.2-install.iso
> deflate on token returned 0 (16384 bytes left)
> unexpected EOF in read_timeout
> unexpected EOF in read_timeout
Bah. rsyncd.conf(5) explicitly lists .iso, .tgz etc as files that are
*not* re-compressed by -z. I've rsync'ed these files a couple of times now
for testing.. (you are using 2.4.6, right?)
Cheers,
-Peter
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