This is a howto I created for myself, my goal was the same as yours. This has been previously posted.

### How to use rsync to create a local mirror of the insallation files for CentOS, of course this could be used for anything else with modifications. ### We are going to create 2 files and edit a 3rd ### 1- Create a directory to store some files in. ### 2- A script to run rsync --- "update.sh" ### 3- An exclusion list so we don't download a bunch of stuff we don't want --- "rsync-exclude.list" ### 4- We need to schedule the update to run by modifying --- /etc/crontab

1- Create a directory to store the files "update.sh" and "rsync-exclude.list" mkdir /opt/mirror

2- Create "update.sh" script to run rsync # See a list of mirrors at http://www.centos.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=13 # --delete means delete files locally that no longer exist on the mirror vi /opt/mirror/update.sh rsync -aqzH --exclude-from=/opt/mirror/rsync-exclude.list --delete rsync.planetmirror.com::centos /var/ftp/pub/centos/ # make it executable chmod 700 /opt/mirror/update.sh

3- Create an exclude list vi /opt/mirror/rsync-exclude.list # add a list of the files you want to be excluded in the rsync process # files with a slash at the beginning are referenced to the root of the rsync directory you connected to. # in this case rsync.planetmirror.com/centos (the ::centos above is the /centos here) # files with a trailing slash indicate any directory with that name anywhere. e.g "apt/" will skip any directory in any sub-tree named apt

/2.1/ /2/ /3.1/ /3.3/ /3.4/ /3.5/ /3.6/ /3/ # The following need to be excluded from /4/ apt/ docs/ isos/ # The following need to be excluded from all directories they are present in, like /4/os/ and /4/updates/ ... We only want the i386 directory. SRPMS/ alpha/ ia64/ ppc/ s390/ s390x/ x86_64/

4- Add a line to /etc/crontab to run the job once a day or once a week or whenever, the following shows run on the 1st minute, 1st hour, Sunday

1 1 * * sun root /opt/mirror/update.sh

Stephen Weyland Systems Administrator Mercury Blue 8398-1210

William Dunn wrote:

I would suggest lots of --exclude directives in your rsync script; for instance,

rsync -aqzH --partial --delete --exclude '/3.*' --exclude '/2.*' us-msync.centos.org::CentOS /foo/bar/pub/CentOS

or, barring that,

rsync -blah -blah --exclude '/2' --exclude '/2.1' --exclude '/3' --exclude '/3.1' --exclude and so forth

I mean, I'm a n00b, and there's probably a better way to do it; but that should work (crosses fingers).

I'd also like to take this opportunity to introduce myself. My name's Will, and I'm the Linux admin for the Computer Science Department at Virginia Tech. I've set up a publicly available CentOS mirror at http://mirror.cs.vt.edu/pub/CentOS and ftp://mirror.cs.vt.edu/pub/CentOS/ - At some point, there will be an entry page at http://mirror.cs.vt.edu/ but for the moment... there's not. I sync from us-msync once or twice a day, and I am planning on upping that to 4 times soon. My upload isn't capped (yet); I'm waiting to see how much interest there is in the mirror before I decide that it needs to be capped. We're tied into the University's OC48; but I am sharing with 20,000 students and faculty members.

~Will CS Technical Staff Virginia Tech

weeteck@cnixal.com wrote:

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Hi all,

I'm on my way to mirror CentOS but only intend to mirror CentOS 4. Any help on how to rsync only the particular version?

Cheers

Teck

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