Hello list. I really appreciate the help with rsync, especially David's sample command. However, I don't think people understand what I want. I do not want a full mirror of the PG archive. I do have a partial mirror but it's very specialized. I don't follow the standard PG directory structure. I only download English books in plain text. I don't want html, non-English, or 8-bit. I have books divided up into 1,000 per directory. For example, my etext18 contains files 18000-18999 etc. For reposts, etext0\ contains books 0-999. This is completely different from the PG structure. Once I download a file, I don't have any reason to retrieve it again unless it gets updated. If rsync will grab all the files I need and put them in my customized structure, rsync will help. However, based on my reading of the help, it doesn't do that. My apologies for the Windows comment. I found it and it's part of cygwin as written below. The syntax actually isn't as bad as I thought. It reminds me of wget which I use frequently. It would be perfect for mirroring a primary server to a backup machine. Again, I'm not trying to mirror here so it doesn't do what I want based on my understanding of comments made on this list and the rsync help. At 04:37 PM 6/30/06 -0700, you wrote:
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.
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