On Monday 01 November 2004 01:28, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote: >On Mon, 2004-11-01 at 01:19 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Friday 29 October 2004 20:31, Salane KIng wrote: >> >sunsite.mff.cuni.cz::ftp/OS/Linux/Dist/Fedora.RC/3/i386/iso/FC3-i >> >386 -disc* >> >> Can someone please translate this into an access to the duke.edu >> rsync server? I'm playing the 10,000 monkeys scene here and >> failing to find the correct syntax from the responses I'm getting. > >I'm very short on time right now, but I can at least point you to my >mirror script which uses rsync off Duke. Maybe that will help you > figure out the correct paths. > >Cheers, Exellent, thank you very much. > >#!/bin/bash > ># Name: mirror v1.5 ># Date: 2 June 2004 ># ># Description: This is a script to mirror the FTP sites I choose to > keep # on my server. It can mirror either a single site or all > sites depending ># on the parameters given on the command line. ># ># Usage: mirror [redhat|fedora|all] > >case $1 in > > redhat) > SITE="ftp.dulug.duke.edu" > SOURCEPATH="redhat-ftp/redhat" > LOCALPATH="/data/pub/redhat" > ;; > > fedora) > SITE="mirror.linux.duke.edu" > SOURCEPATH="fedora-linux-core" > LOCALPATH="/data/pub/fedora/linux/core" > ;; > > all) > /home/rpaiz/mirror/mirror redhat & > /home/rpaiz/mirror/mirror fedora & > exit 0 > ;; > > *) > echo "Invalid parameter; please try again." > echo > exit 1 > >esac > ># Execute the mirroring process and create the output file. > >rsync -avP --exclude-from=excluded-$1 --delete --delete-excluded \ > --max-delete=100 $SITE::$SOURCEPATH/ $LOCALPATH/ > > report-$1.$(date + %F) > ># Done. >exit 0 -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.28% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.