imho the exclude part is not working right, it's not matching to anything. try a --dry-run first, without any excludes or includes, for example: rsync -avH --progress --delete --dry-run us-msync.centos.org::CentOS /var/storage/install/CentOS | tee /tmp/rsync.log this way it shows you what would pull, but nothing gets downloaded, and you get a nice logfile of all the files. after that, you can add some excludes, and run it again _with_ the dry-run parameter, to see the exclude/includes effect. there is not much sens using -z, as all the rpms all compressed already, it just puts an extra overhead on the whole process. so drop the -z, and run with -H instead, as the mirror howto says. consider using --include-from=FILE and --exclude-from=FILE parameters, it's easier. after reviewing the above rsync output logs, you can add for exclusion something like this: --exclude="s390/" --exclude="s390x/" --exclude="ppc/" --exclude="SRPMS/" if you just want a specific subdirectory, eg. 4.0/, you could add that to the rsync path, like this: rsync us-msync.centos.or::CentOS/4.0/ /path/to/localdir/4.0/ then it wont process all the tree, only that subdirectory, it's faster. hope that it helps somewhat. Matt Shields wrote: > Can someone see why when I run this script it tries to pull ALL > versions instead of just 4 & 5? Also, what would I add if I wanted to > exclude SRPMS, alpha, ppc, s390, & s390x. > > #!/bin/bash > > RSYNC="/usr/bin/rsync" # file location of rsync > FLAGS="-avz --bwlimit=512" # rsync flags > MIRROR="us-msync.centos.org::CentOS" # rsync mirror > REPO="/var/storage/install/CentOS" # directory to store files > INCLUDE="--include='timestamp.txt' --include='TIME' > --include='RPM-GPG-KEY-centos4' --include='4.4/' --include='4.3/' > --include='4.2/' --include='4.1/' --include='4/' --include='4.0/' > --include='5/' --include='5.0/'" > EXCLUDE="--exclude '/*'" > > if [ -f "/var/run/centos-mirror.pid" ]; then > RUNPID=`cat /var/run/centos-mirror.pid` > if ps -p $RUNPID; then > echo "Mirror is already running..." > exit 1 > else > echo "Mirror pid found but process dead, cleaning up" > rm -f /var/run/centos-mirror.pid > fi > else > echo "No Mirror Process Detected" > fi > echo $$ > /var/run/centos-mirror.pid > > echo Rsyncing... > $RSYNC $FLAGS $EXCLUDE $INCLUDE $MIRROR $REPO > rm -f /var/run/centos-mirror.pid > exit 0 > > Thanks, Matt > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-mirror mailing list > CentOS-mirror at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-mirror -- Imre Gergely ISP Services UPC Romania 28 Dostoievski St., 400424 Cluj-Napoca www.upc.ro gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 0x34525305