Damon Muller writes:
> Hi Folks,
Hello:
> I remembered, however, that I still have a Uni dial-in account (which
> has a high-speed link to another Uni which is an official mirror), but
> that is restricted to 2-hour's at a time.
>
> Can anyone offer any advice as to what is the most efficient way to
> download it, considering it will probably be interupted a few times. I
> don't plan on doing an FTP-install, I'll download it all to a local HD
> and install it from there.
I can recomend you to use lftp mirror command, it is cool, however, in
the default bo version (sorry, don't remember which one it is), it is
not completed, I mean, as full fetured as in v1.0-1 wich is in hamm,
but I remember there is an updated version of the lftp package for bo
in bo-updates or in bo-unstable that has a more complete mirror
command.
I downloaded all hamm main in about two weeks (but sometimes I let it
running overnight), doing:
lftp ftp.mirror.site
> mirror -e -n -v -c debian/dists/frozen/main/binary-all hamm/binary-all &
> mirror -e -n -v -c debian/dists/frozen/main/binary-i386 hamm/binary-i386 &
> mirror -e -n -v -c debian/dists/frozen/main/disks-i386 hamm/disks-i386 &
-e is for erase old files, -n is to get only newer files, -v is to be
verbose and -c is to continue if posible (as in getting half emacs-20
in one shot and the rest in the next or the like). Also, if there is
no local hamm dir, it will create it and all other subdirs, it's a
mirror! :)
Then, you let them run two hours, checking them with:
> jobs
and/or:
> fg <job-number>
> <Ctrl-Z>
And then, when it will be time to disconnect:
> kill 0
> kill 1
> kill 2
^ job numbers can vary
Well, this is how I did a mirror of hamm, and it is why I love lftp :)
HTH, see you
Roberto Ruiz
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