[CentOS] Re: Local mirroring of the CentOS repos

Thu Oct 11 15:54:15 UTC 2007
Scott Silva <ssilva at sgvwater.com>

on 10/11/2007 7:16 AM Ashley M. Kirchner spake the following:
> Kai Schaetzl wrote:
>> Thanks, but this will still download and keep *all* updates for a 
>> platform.
>    If they exist on the mirror, then yes.  However, anything that gets 
> removed from the mirror you're using, will also get deleted from your 
> local copy.  That's the whole idea behind rsync's --delete flag.  In my 
> case, I don't really care if the CentOS mirrors don't delete old stuff, 
> I just pull everything down.  However, on the Fedora side, they do 
> remove old packages, and rsync will automatically remove them from the 
> local copy as well.  I backup some 15 servers that way.  They're all 
> going to a single backup server where I keep up to 6 weeks worth of data 
> (for some, 2 weeks on others) using rsync as a backup utility.  Using 
> hardlinks between backups allows me to keep that much information.  And 
> if a file gets removed from the source, it will get removed from the 
> backup as well, but only for that run, not the previous ones.
> 
>    As for not having rsync on Win2K, you can install CygWin on it and 
> use rsync then.  I have a Server2003 pulling 2 TiB of data every night 
> from an old Win2K server using rsync.
> 
With the space crunch on the CentOS mirrors, I don't know why they don't just 
have the latest files in the updates mirrors and move all the older stuff to 
vault. If someone wants an older release of a file, you need to get it 
directly anyway. It wouldn't save a ton of space, but it would save some.

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