From owner-freebsd-hubs Wed May 2 13:33:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Received: from piglet.dstc.edu.au (piglet.dstc.edu.au [130.102.176.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CDB037B43C for ; Wed, 2 May 2001 13:33:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jason@dstc.edu.au) Received: from azure.dstc.edu.au (azure.dstc.edu.au [130.102.176.27]) by piglet.dstc.edu.au (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f42KXHO15201; Thu, 3 May 2001 06:33:18 +1000 (EST) Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 06:33:18 +1000 (EST) From: jason andrade To: Garrett Wollman Cc: Peter Wemm , freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ftp-master.freebsd.org is alive ... In-Reply-To: <200105022002.QAA96419@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 1.0 (http://www.roaringpenguin.com/mimedefang/) Sender: owner-freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 2 May 2001, Garrett Wollman wrote: > The manual page suggests that it can do most of what I want it to do > (although I don't relish rewriting all those regular expressions into > globs so that `rsync' can handle them). rsync still doesn't have > useful gradations in verbosity, doesn't have a safety feature to limit true > the scope of deletions, and doesn't deal gracefully with connections --max-delete=# it's not as good as mirrors.. really needs to be written, but you can use it to stop your whole site being wiped out. > being refused or broken and permission errors on either end. (The this is true.. > server is also an incredible memory hog, but I assume you have already > crossed that bridge.) it's much less of a memory hog than mirror.pl.. but things like omi/spegla are better at memory usage. it also chews a lot more memory with --delete unfortunately (about 3 times more i believe ?) regards, -jason To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message