From rhn-users at greatlakedata.com Sun Aug 29 14:57:41 2010 From: rhn-users at greatlakedata.com (gregwm) Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2010 09:57:41 -0500 Subject: [rhn-users] rsync? Message-ID: alas the md5sum -c fails for the rhel5 dvd i downloaded. must i do the entire download again? is there a way to do an rsync instead, or something like it, that would check my copy and send me just the needed differences? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From lpf at isc.ih.dk Sun Aug 29 20:01:13 2010 From: lpf at isc.ih.dk (Lars P. Frederiksen) Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2010 22:01:13 +0200 Subject: [rhn-users] AUTO: Lars P. Frederiksen er ikke til stede (returning 30-08-2010) Message-ID: An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From paulway at sgs.immi.gov.au Sun Aug 29 23:39:08 2010 From: paulway at sgs.immi.gov.au (Paul Wayper) Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 09:39:08 +1000 Subject: [rhn-users] rsync? [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED] In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4C7AEF9C.6010000@sgs.immi.gov.au> On 30/08/10 00:57, gregwm wrote: > alas the md5sum -c fails for the rhel5 dvd i downloaded. must i do > the entire download again? is there a way to do an rsync instead, or > something like it, that would check my copy and send me just the > needed differences? This is another reason in support of my argument that Red Hat should provide BitTorrent downloads for the RHEL5 media. I agree that many corporate firewalls may not currently allow BitTorrent, but it would allow reliable downloads and simple synchronisation in cases where the download failed for some reason. In the short term, have you checked that the file is the same size as listed? You may have just not got the last couple of kilobytes. If you know of a particular point in the download that failed, try truncating the file just before that point and let wget -c resume the download. A hybrid long-term solution would be for Red Hat to provide a program that takes a torrent file and an existing ISO and checks the blocks in the ISO against the torrent file's block md5sums. It could then use segmented downloading to fetch only the blocks in which errors had been found. (This is a useful project for everyone - I wonder if it's already been done). Have fun, Paul -- Paul Wayper - Gateway Engineer - Unisys 02 6225 8057 - 0422 392 081 - Level 1, 9 Thynne St, Bruce -------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Notice: If you have received this email by mistake, please advise the sender and delete the message and attachments immediately. This email, including attachments, may contain confidential, sensitive, legally privileged and/or copyright information. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. DIAC respects your privacy and has obligations under the Privacy Act 1988. The official departmental privacy policy can be viewed on the department's website at www.immi.gov.au. See: http://www.immi.gov.au/functional/privacy.htm --------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From paulway at sgs.immi.gov.au Mon Aug 30 00:24:31 2010 From: paulway at sgs.immi.gov.au (Paul Wayper) Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 10:24:31 +1000 Subject: [rhn-users] rsync? [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED] In-Reply-To: <4C7AEF9C.6010000@sgs.immi.gov.au> References: <4C7AEF9C.6010000@sgs.immi.gov.au> Message-ID: <4C7AFA3F.9060707@sgs.immi.gov.au> On 30/08/10 09:39, Paul Wayper wrote: > A hybrid long-term solution would be for Red Hat to provide a program > that takes a torrent file and an existing ISO and checks the blocks in > the ISO against the torrent file's block md5sums. It could then use > segmented downloading to fetch only the blocks in which errors had > been found. (This is a useful project for everyone - I wonder if it's > already been done). Just in case I'm not clear here I mean segmented HTTP/HTTPS downloading - i.e. proxy compatible, regular web requests. So the torrent file is only used as a reference and no bittorrent traffic is needed. Have fun, Paul -- Paul Wayper - Gateway Engineer - Unisys 02 6225 8057 - 0422 392 081 - Level 1, 9 Thynne St, Bruce -------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Notice: If you have received this email by mistake, please advise the sender and delete the message and attachments immediately. This email, including attachments, may contain confidential, sensitive, legally privileged and/or copyright information. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. 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