Any alternate download sites for speakup ftp?

[Janina Sajka]

The rsync is preferable because it will work far more quickly and
efficiently. Most of the data doesn't change from week to week. Rsync is
smart enough to only download the differences, that what's so pwerful
about rsync.

Sina Bahram writes:
> Well, let me know ... I need to send them the propper rsync info ... If not,
> they set a simple wget or ftp would also work just fine.
> 
> Take care,
> Sina
>  
> -----Original Message-----
> From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca]
> On Behalf Of Kenny Hitt
> Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 1:42 PM
> To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
> Subject: Re: Any alternate download sites for speakup ftp?
> 
> Hi.  Since Bill is the maintainer for the speakup modified Fedora, wouldn't
> it be better to rsync against his server?  Considering the slow transfers to
> and from bumpy, rsyncing against bumpy could get the mirrors up to date much
> sooner.
> 
>           Kenny
> 	  
> On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 01:23:10PM -0500, Janina Sajka wrote:
> > Hi, Sina:
> > 
> > I don't think there's much to coordinate. That's the beauty of it.
> > 
> > My advice is to simply run a weekly rsync via cron--something like:
> > 
> > rsync -avtz --delete bumpy.braille.uwo.ca::ftp/speakup/disks/* \ 
> > [mirror.directory]
> > 
> > The only refinement I can think of that would probably be helpful is 
> > to close the directory before doing the rsync to insure that no files 
> > are locked by someone's download while the rsync is in process. I 
> > confess I don't know if this is really an issue, but I'd want to make 
> > sure that it isn't--or just deal with it, perhaps by chmod the tree 
> > against reads for the duration.
> 
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