replicating a complete directory via ftp

[Keith Morse]

On Thu, 27 Nov 2003, Collins Richey wrote:

> I noticed yesterday that SUSE has released a freely downloadable basic version
> of 9.0, but no isos.  So I thought I would just download the set of directories
> to disk.
> 
> After a brief RTFM, I'm confused.  What is the easy way to replicate a site like
> this on disk (I have the space)? - rsync, or ???
> 
> TIA,

Definitely rsync is the way to go.  An example for a FC1 mirror that I 
use.

	rsync  limestone.uoregon.edu::ftp


Try Mr. Llama's suggestion.  They may not advertise rsync even thought its 
enabled.

Actually I just tried this with rpmfind.net.

	rsync ftp.rpmfind.net::linux/SuSE-Linux/i386/9.0/

will give a listing.  I noticed it was kinda flakey about listing the 
directory structure.


	rsync mirror.mcs.anl.gov::suse/i386/

seemed better.

I'd then 

rsync mirror.mcs.anl.gov::suse/i386/  /scratch/ftp/pub/suse/9.0/i386/

to mirror.