--On Tuesday, December 18, 2007 1:29 PM -0800 Robert Arkiletian robark@gmail.com wrote:
rsync -Pv rsync://mirrors.kernel.org/centos/5.1/isos/i386/CentOS-5.1-i386-bin-DVD.i so .
You should get upto 50% savings. At least I did with the CD iso's in the past. The capital P is --partial --progress.
My results:
CentOS-5.1-i386-bin-DVD.iso 3845230592 100% 4.93MB/s 0:12:24 (xfer#1, to-check=0/1)
sent 487931 bytes received 1797247739 bytes 2086750.63 bytes/sec total size is 3845230592 speedup is 2.14