F7 - the mystery of rsync installation

Thomas Cameron thomas.cameron at camerontech.com
Sat Jun 2 16:00:11 UTC 2007


Timothy Murphy wrote:
> How exactly is one meant to use the rsync facility
> offered by several of the mirrors?
> I tried clicking on "rsync" (as opposed to "http" or "ftp")
> on a couple of mirrors in the list,
> and was told in both cases that the protocol was not supported.
> 
> I have rsync installed on the machine in question,
> and in fact use it all the time.
> 
> Actually, I found it was not in fact necessary,
> as when I killed my download after it had been stalled for 9 hours,
> and started again from a different mirror,
> I was asked if I wanted to resume or start again,
> and when I opted to resume it seemed to work fine.
> 

I use rsync as described at 
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/mirror/en/sn-planning-and-setup.html

It works great and I have FC5, FC6 and am working on F7, 32 and 64 bit 
on my home server now.

Thomas




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