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[Eric Womack <eric AT sourcemage.com>]

On Friday 10 January 2003 8:55 pm, Andrew wrote:
> So there was a thread about a week ago refering to mirroring off
> of ibiblio. Has anyone been able to rsync back off of it? Is this
> possible? If so I think we should update/expand my small and poorly
> written section on HOWTO-Mirror (which basically says to do summon's
> in cron). I havent been able to figure out how to get mirroring to work
> with rsync (and i lack the time to track it down).
>
> Also, I noticed we dont have the mirror.pl software they mention that
> we could use. Should we add a spell for that, or is there some reason not
> to?
>
> One last point, i think rysnc needs to have a(n) (optional_)depend
> on netkit-rsh.
>
> Andrew
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I have not pulled off the module (since I am pushing to it) but I have 
checked 
for its existance:

eric@engineering:~$ rsync ibiblio.org::

  Welcome to ibiblio.org's rsync server!

  If you have problems or questions, feel free to mail help AT ibiblio.org.

  If you will, please subscribe to our mirror announcement list:
  http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/ibiblio-mirrors

  We offer these particular rsync modules simply because users
  have asked for them.  If you would like another archive offered
  as an rsync module, please ask help AT ibiblio.org.

  Thanks!

Docsouth        Documenting the American South
Linux           ibiblio linux archive, proper
chinese-music   Chinese music collection
distros         Linux Distributions (use this to get at particular distros)
gentoo          Gentoo Linux Distribution
ggi             GGI
gnome           Gnome stable tree
gnu             GNU software
gutenberg       Project Gutenberg
htdig           htdig mirror
iupac           iupac downloads
kde             our KDE mirror (complete)
kernel.org      the kernel.org mirror
ldp_mirror      Linux Documentation Project
maven           maven
obp             Open Book Project
pld             PLD Linux Distribution
sun-info        Sun Info
sun-packages    Sun Solaris Packages
freedos         FreeDOS
sourcemage      sourcemange

The mirror.pl is a generic Perl script for mirroring, and you can use it if 
you wish, but you can also use rsync directly (see man rsync) and you will 
get the entire site, along with the mirrors.

And, please, don't resort to rsh!  To pull to your site you need NOTHING but 
rsync, and if you are pushing with rsync you REALLY want to go to ssh.


P.S.  Quick run-down of rsync:

rsync is a file transfer program capable of efficient remote update
via a fast differencing algorithm.

Usage: rsync [OPTION]... SRC [SRC]... [USER@]HOST:DEST
  or   rsync [OPTION]... [USER@]HOST:SRC DEST
  or   rsync [OPTION]... SRC [SRC]... DEST
  or   rsync [OPTION]... [USER@]HOST::SRC [DEST]
  or   rsync [OPTION]... SRC [SRC]... [USER@]HOST::DEST
  or   rsync [OPTION]... rsync://[USER@]HOST[:PORT]/SRC [DEST]
SRC on single-colon remote HOST will be expanded by remote shell
SRC on server remote HOST may contain shell wildcards or multiple
  sources separated by space as long as they have same top-level

For most users looking for a local mirror off of ibiblio, I recommend the 
--archive and --delete option.
-- 
Eric Womack
Grimoire Guru - KDE
System Administrator
Las Vegas Data LLC

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