[CentOS-mirror] Alternative for rsync

Wed May 6 08:36:39 UTC 2009
Manuel Wolfshant <ftpadmin at lug.ro>

Manikanta wrote:
> On Wed, 06 May 2009 08:07:04 +0100
> Lucian <lucian at chml.ro> wrote:
>
>   
>> On Wed, 2009-05-06 at 11:59 +0530, Manikanta wrote:
>>     
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am trying to create a private Centos mirror for local domain. I
>>> want this private mirror to be in sync with central mirror the
>>> tools i started to use are httpd and rsync but now i find that
>>> rsync requires 873 port to be accepted but since i am across a
>>> secured network i can only access remote servers throug http only
>>> as it is my org policy, can someone suggest me any tool for
>>> synchronization of folders over http proxy.
>>>
>>> Thanks & Regards,
>>> Manikanta.
>>>
>>>       
>> You could try lftp's mirror feature.
>> Check this for example:
>> http://www.linux.com/feature/122169
>> and the man page, of course.
>> Problem with (l)ftp is that it's SLOW and not nearly as reliable as
>> rsync.
>>
>>     
>
> Is there any HTTP based synchroniztion tool?
>
>   
lftp speaks http. So do reposync, curl, wget and mrepo