--On Tuesday, December 18, 2007 1:29 PM -0800 Robert Arkiletian <robark at gmail.com> wrote: > rsync -Pv > rsync://mirrors.kernel.org/centos/5.1/isos/i386/CentOS-5.1-i386-bin-DVD.i > so . > > You should get upto 50% savings. At least I did with the CD iso's in > the past. The capital P is --partial --progress. My results: CentOS-5.1-i386-bin-DVD.iso 3845230592 100% 4.93MB/s 0:12:24 (xfer#1, to-check=0/1) sent 487931 bytes received 1797247739 bytes 2086750.63 bytes/sec total size is 3845230592 speedup is 2.14