Re: ftp.kernel.org

[Horst von Brand]

Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@xxxxxxxxxx> said:

[...]

> Disagree! Mirroring with ftp is possibly quite a waste of bandwidth (at
> least in case partial file transfers etc.),

mirror is smarter than that...

>                                             and IIRC you can't reliably
> mirror symlinks (IIRC the "ls"/"dir" output is only ment to be
> human-readable), hardlinks and the like.

So? A script that is smart enough can figure them out too...

> If you see aborts [with rsync], properly set the timeout parameter...

With mirror you can use file patterns to include/exclude (e.g. get just the
.bz2 versions (not redundant .gz)), only consider "new" files (i.e.,
exclude anything more than a week old), etc.
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