Re: ftp mirrors

[Jason Molenda <jason-swarelist@molenda.com>]

On Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 03:02:59PM +1000, Andrew Cagney wrote:

> And (shameless plug) cvsup :-)

For Buddha's sake Cagney, you'd read your mail with cvsup if you
could figure out how. :-)

> With rsync, I've wondered about creating a hidden shaddow of the FTP
> area that didn't contain gz/bz files.  

We don't have the disk space for that.  (try a df on sourceware and
imagine what the 3GB of ftp would expand to when uncompressed)

More importantly, rsync has support for this problem already.

       dont compress
              The "dont compress" option  allows  you  to  select
              filenames  based  on  wildcard patterns that should
              not be compressed during transfer.  Compression  is
              expensive  in  terms  of CPU usage so it is usually
              good to not try to compress files that  won't  com-
              press well, such as already compressed files.

              The  "dont compress" option takes a space separated
              list of  case-insensitive  wildcard  patterns.  Any
              source  filename  matching one of the patterns will
              not be compressed during transfer.

              The default setting is

              *.gz *.tgz *.zip *.z *.rpm *.deb

Looks like setting 'dont compress' to include .bz2 would be enough.


J