[CentOS] Keeping a complete CentOS mirror

Thu Oct 2 19:04:22 UTC 2008
John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com>

Kai Schaetzl wrote:
> Chris Miller wrote on Thu, 02 Oct 2008 10:56:43 -0700:
>
>   
>> Is there a way I can keep a complete mirror of old/new releases of
>> CentOS 4/5 automagically?
>>     
>
> Not sure what you mean. If you want to keep all old, superceded files you 
> should make a copy of each daily rsync. If what you mean by release is 
> 5.1, 5.2 etc. I guess you would need to rsync against 5.1 instead of 5.
>   

or don't use the --delete switch on rsync, so files that have vanished 
off the source won't be deleted.