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 at cnixal.com wrote: > >> 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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS-mirror mailing list >> CentOS-mirror at centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-mirror > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-mirror mailing list > CentOS-mirror at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-mirror