On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 11:38:26PM -0500, Bret Hughes wrote: > > This makes it sound like I am downloading each file every time I run > mirror. I am not. I only get new files once and then only check it > each time I run mirror.
A daily mirroring means that you connect to the ftp site, get a listing of the updates present, compare it with the updates present locally and download any differences between the two. Even if there are no updates to download, the listing will still have been transfered and this results in a 120K download. This may not seem like much but multiply it by numbers-of-users and times-per-week and you start getting into numbers that only a big site can handle. If the site you're mirroring from is a small one, it would be far more polite to ask the ftp admin for permission and the most appropriate time interval to do this at. > we have around 40 redhat boxes and about to ad 10 more and to think > that everytime I add another I would have to re-download the updates is > seriously crazy. I only have a dsl connection at the office. Obviously, mirroring is the best solution in this case. Emmanuel _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list