Filelist caching

Andrew J. Schorr aschorr at telemetry-investments.com
Wed Feb 19 02:26:57 EST 2003


Hi Rogier,

On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 05:05:16PM +0100, Rogier van Eeten wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 05:18:11PM -0500, Andrew J. Schorr wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 10:51:19AM -0500, Andrew J. Schorr wrote:
> > > > I was wondering... is there a way to cache that filelist? Our mirrors
> > > > are updated once, or twice a day, it could speed up downloads when I
> > > > create a filelist everytime we've mirrored others.
> > > 
> > > Please take a look at the --files-from feature that is now in the CVS tree,
> > > courtesy of Wayne Davison.
> >    http://www.clari.net/~wayne/rsync-files-from.patch
> 
> How does it work? What kind of list does it want? And how do I use it as
> a server?

Please refer to this archived message for more info:

   http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=rsync&m=104286019712633&w=2

As explained in that post, if the filename argument to --files-from has
a <host>: prefix, then the list will be pulled from the server.

I hope that helps.

-Andy


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