30 Jun
2004
30 Jun
'04
7:28 a.m.
On Jun 30, 11:23, Jay West wrote:
It was written.....
claim to
rsync is great. wget works, too.
Again, do not use rsync for mirroring static documents. It's whole fame is totally defeated in that environment.
Rsync is an incredible tool. But it's NOT the tool for that job.
Why not? If it's already got the document, it won't fetch it again.
We use rsync for the official mirrors of PUPS for that reason. Most
of the stuff doesn't change. Al's site is even better; it gets added
to, but files rarely change. As I understand it, fmirror will be no
more efficient for that, becasue it still has to fetch the whole of a
new document, jusrt as rsync would.
I wouldn't use wget, though; it's fine to do a one-off fetch, but not
so good for keeping up to date on a regular basis (actually, it might
work quite well for bitsavers, but for sites where files change).
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York