On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 03:53:31AM +1000, bob parker wrote: > On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 00:48, David Fokkema wrote: > > Hi group, > > > > I've just installed apt-proxy. Should I use rsync or wget for fetching > > packages? I don't really understand the differences. I do understand > > that rsync can sync to filesystems by only downloading the differences, > > but apt-proxy knows what it needs to download, right? Only one package, > > or a list or something like that, not a whole filesystem. And once a > > transfer is started, what is the difference in speed between rsync and > > wget? Does rsync do something very smart? > > > > So, basically: should I use rsync or ftp or http servers in my > > apt-proxy.conf? > > I know nothing about apt-proxy but I do know that wget saturates my rubber > band powered dial-up connection and makes browsing very unpleasant while it's > going on. rsync does not saturate the link but it gets ~70meg / 8hours > whereas ftp/http gets ~100meg in the same time. > > OTOH rsync is very clever indeed when you need to correct a very large file > such as an iso. All that gets downloaded initially are md4sums of small > segments of the source file to compare with the md4sums of the corresponding > segments on your copy. Then correcting segments are d/l and patched as needed. > > I have corrected 2, 700meg isos using rsync, the first took about 5 min and > the second about 25 min. Not bad on a dialup connection. > > So my guess is perhaps use wget to establish your mirror and change to rsync > to maintain it.
Hmmm... IIUC, wget only supports regetting a file (if the server also supports it) and this only resumes download at the point it was stopped. Apparently, rsync _is_ clever. Thanks, David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
