using rsync to keep squeeze amd64 image freshened.
edacval at gmail.com
edacval at gmail.com
Thu Dec 16 21:32:36 MST 2010
On 12/17/2010 05:12 AM, shirish शिरीष wrote:
> Hi all, I tried to get my query of how to use rsync by the mailing
> list debian-user at lists.debian.org but the answers were not
> satisfactory. You can see the whole thread starting from
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2010/12/msg00651.html
>
> What I want to do is to keep the weekly amd64 squeeze build , from t
> its
> http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/amd64/iso-dvd/debian-testing-amd64-DVD-1.iso
>
> The above is what I want to achieve. But I'm facing problems as I
> don't know how to use rsync
>
> Looking from http://www.debian.org/CD/mirroring/rsync-mirrors and
> http://www.debian.org/CD/mirroring/#exclude
>
> the command seems to come something like this :-
>
> rsync --times --links --hard-links --partial -archive -verbose
> -compress --block-size=8192 --exclude=source/
> --exclude='*businesscard*.iso' --exclude='*netinst*.iso'
> --exclude=alpha/ --exclude=arm/ --exclude=hppa/ --exclude=hurd/
> --exclude=ia64/ --exclude=m68k/ --exclude=mips/ --exclude=mipsel/
> --exclude=powerpc/ --exclude=s390/ --exclude=sh/ --exclude=sparc/
> --exclude=5.0.7/ --exclude=5.0.7-live/ --exclude=i386/
> --include='*-dvd.iso' ftp.de.debian.org::debian-cd/ .
>
> While ftp.de.debian.org has only 5.0.7 images (not something I'm
> looking for)
>
> The Taiwan mirror seems to have everything . I had to look at quite
> a few mirrors as most of them have Debian Lenny (5.0.x series) but
> not Debian squeeze (6.0.x series).
>
> ftp://ftp.tw.debian.org/debian-cdimage/weekly-builds/amd64/iso-dvd/debian-testing-amd64-DVD-1.iso
>
> This is the one I want to rsync. Only DVD-1 does anybody know how
> can I achieve that and if there is a simpler way to do it (perhaps
> something that I don't know ?)
>
> Looking forward to answers.
None of 4 Taiwan official rsync mirrors offers ::debian-cdimage module.
You can mirror from official debian rsync server:
rsync -aHPv --block-size=8192
cdimage.debian.org::cdimage/weekly-builds/amd64/iso-dvd/ /YOUR_DOWNLOAD_DIR/
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