F7 - the mystery of rsync installation

[Timothy Murphy]

Thomas Cameron wrote:

> 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.

Thanks for the pointer.

Though I'm not sure what the point of rsync is in this context,
since you can resume an http upload from the place where it failed.

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