I used Centos 4.0 iso to setup my systems and updated till date. I assume they are equivalent to systems created with Centos 4.4

That's how it works, yes.

Please advise what directories I should download for my local repository, as the download tree has updates, extras, centosplus repos for 4.0, 4.1, 4.2, 4. & 4.4 & so on. Please advise the appropriate rsync commands, so that I can use it, so as to exclude isos and include the rest.

Rsync commands depend on the mirror to some extent. The general way to mirror would be 'rsync -azvH remote-mirror.org::somelocation/. /some/local/dir/'

If you actually look at the mirrors, you'll notice that 4.1, 4.2, etc are all empty. See -> http://mirror.centos.org/centos-4/4.2/readme

It's generally best to use 4/ instead of 4.1 etc, as 4/ will always point to the current release.

A smal comment on how the repos relate to version numbers would be really appreciated.

As in the readme linked to above. 4 represents the major version (there's only centos 4, not centos 4.0, 4.1 etc) and the .X number represents the minor version, which corresponds to the upstream vendor's quarterly updates.

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