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. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!