Stephen,
Actually I didn't have to do any of that...it was matter of simply
changing the rsync root. Here is my script:
#!/bin/sh
EXCLUSION="/etc/rsync-exclude.list"
RSYNC_HOST="rsync.planetmirror.com"
RSYNC_ROOT="centos/4.2/"
DESTINATION="/home/ftp/pub/Linux/CentOS/4.2/"
/usr/bin/rsync -aqzH --exclude-from=$EXCLUSION --delete
$RSYNC_HOST::$RSYNC_ROOT $DESTINATION
/bin/chown -R vijay.avarachen:spduslisadmins $DESTINATION
Cheers!
Vijay Avarachen
On 1/5/06, Stephen Weyland <stephen.weyland at mercuryblue.com.au> wrote:
>
> Vijay Avarachen wrote:
>
> Stephen,
> Thank you very much for your help. It works pretty good :-) but has
> a few glitches. I read the rsync man pages and according to it the
> exclusion list contains files and folder name patterns to be excluded. The
> exclusion works but it still creates symlinks :-(
> $ du -s -h *
> 0 2
> 0 3
> 0 3.1
> 0 3.3
> 0 3.4
> 0 3.5
> 0 4
> 439M 4.2
> 0 RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-2
> 4.0K RPM-GPG-KEY-centos4
> 0 RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-4
> 4.0K TIME
> 4.0K timestamp.txt
>
> Is there a way to stop it from creating these symlinks that dont' point to
> anything. Here is my exclusion list:
>
> you might consider the following
> "For normal users, you should use /4/ and not /4.0/ in your path. Please
> see this FAQ concerning the CentOS release scheme:"
> http://www.centos.org/modules/smartfaq/faq.php?faqid=34
> symlinks need to be included for this reason, i.e /4/ points to /4.2/ .
> The other dead symlinks are not hurting anything.
>
> /2.1/
> /2/
> /3.1/
> /3.3/
> /3.4/
> /3.5/
> /3.6/
> /3/
> /4/
>
> as above on why /4/ should not be excluded.
>
> /4.0/
> /4.1/
> /4.3beta/
> /HEADER.images/
> /RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-2/
> /RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-4/
> /build/
> /graphics/
> /HEADER.html/
> /RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-3/
> /RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-4/
>
> #4.2 excludes
> /4.2/Readme.txt
> /4.2/addons/
> /4.2/apt/
> /4.2/centosplus/
> /4.2/contrib/
> /4.2/csgfs/
> /4.2/docs/
> /4.2/extras/
> /4.2/isos/
> /4.2/os/
> /4.2/testing/
> #Only get i386, ia64, x86_64
> /4.2/updates/SRPMS/
> /4.2/updates/alpha/
> /4.2/updates/ppc/
> /4.2/updates/s390/
> /4.2/updates/s390x/
>
> i.e. /4/ is a symlink to the latest release, in this case 4.2/ which is
> why mine was configured as it was
>
> also if you use the following method in your exclusion list
> addons/
> apt/
> etc, you will exclude that dir from all locations in the tree
>
>
> Thanks,
> Vijay Avarachen
>
> On 1/5/06, Stephen Weyland <stephen.weyland at mercuryblue.com.au> wrote:
> >
> > Vijay Avarachen wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> > My environment is using CentOS 4.2 on all workstations and I would
> > like to setup a local mirror just for the updates. I only x86, x86_64 and
> > ia64 architectures. How can I setup a rsync mirror of the updates folder
> > for only these architectures? I am very new to rsync, so please apologize
> > if this is a very ignorant question.
> >
> > I just finished figuring this out and documenting, so here you go. You
> > can probably fine tune it as this is my first attempt.
> >
> > ### 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, (crontab -e would be better)
> >
> > 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
> >
> > Thank you,
> > Vijay Avarachen
> >
> > --
> > "Knowledge is the only wealth that grows as you spend it, and diminishes
> > as you save it."
> > -- ancient Sanskrit saying
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