Rsync's available for Windows as part of the cygwin package. Just like FTP or wget you can tell rsync to get only the stuff you want. and unlike FTP or wget it will only download the files that need updating, without you having to wait several hours for it to skip over every file that hasn't changed. I admit it can be confusing since it's a very powerful too. I was talking about it with Aaron Cannon and he says it's a better way to make a "mirror" of PG (with or without specific files that you want. My suggestion for people who want to use rsync? Have someone write a more detailed FAQ on it, explain it in non-technical terms, and provide some examples (using the PG archive) of commands you can run with it, especially sample rsync lines like David has, explaining all the '-' tags and what they mean in context with the line and what they will make rsync do to the files you download/mirror. Jared Tony Baechler wrote on 30/06/2006, 12:58 AM:
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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