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.
