-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of John R Pierce Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2007 2:27 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] minimize download bandwidth techniques
Dale Sykora wrote:
I know of a few techniques for minimizing server bandwidth when bittorent is not an option.
- If you have the beta isos, you can rename them as centos
5 isos and
then rsync from a mirror that allows rsync (such as
kernel.org). Then
only changes from beta to centos 5 plus some overhead is
downloaded.
I suppose you could use this technique with bittorrent too.
if one file near the beginning of the ISO changes size by even a block, then the whole rest of the ISO will be different, this will gain you nothing.
I used to download K12LTSP isos this way between beta versions and it seemed to speed up the process. I suppose your mileage may vary.