[CentOS-mirror] Alternative for rsync

Wed May 6 09:09:36 UTC 2009
Prof. P. Sriram <sriram at ae.iitm.ac.in>

On Wed, 6 May 2009, Manikanta wrote:
> Is there any HTTP based synchroniztion tool?

you can use wget, but all those would be terrible ways to do it. for a
single byte change in a file, you would discard the local copy and
download the entire file from the upstream server. rsync will do a diff
kind of thing and is about the only sane way of doing it. prevail on your
organization to open the port. does your organization really believe in
port number / protocol based security?

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sriram