wget: A good download manager?

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 12:57:24PM -0500, Matthew Carpenter wrote:

>anonymous ftp: where the site is full most of the time.  wget allows you to
>set a retry count (-t) which will continue to try a given URL.

>Recovery: Using the -c option allows you to recover from failed downloads.

>Mirroring: wget has special options specifically for mirroring other sites.

>Recursion: wget, being very good at mirroring, has many recursion options
>(downloading directory structures, not just files).

Assuming that the remote site has rsync set up to run as a
server, then rsync allows all of the above, probably more
efficiently when mirroring sites.

Bill
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