My understanding of rsync is that you had to mirror the entire PG archive. That was based on the PG FAQ and my attempts to read the help and man page. I couldn't figure out the command line options and experiments I tried gave me errors. I think the PG FAQ gives a sample command line but that's for everything which isn't what I want. Besides it's nice to manually look at and download each file. I often like to stop every few files and look at a book of interest. So, to answer your question, all of rsync confuses me since I never got it to work. Also, another problem might be that I'm primarily on Windows. I know rsync is common in Linux and I have it installed on the Debian server that I run but I'm not sure if it's available for Windows or not. I have Cygwin so I might have it, but again I have no idea how to get it to only get the files I want. That's nice about getting them manually, I can skip those I don't want as I see them in the newsletters. At 07:10 AM 6/28/06 -0400, you wrote:
I'm sorry... what? You can rsync exactly what files you wish, recursively or not, pick and choose, with rsync... using the right options. I mirror Gutenberg here with rsync, skipping the DVD files, .mp3 files, .rar files and a few others, getting only the useful copies of books.
What part of rsync's usage is confusing you?
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