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Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 02:21:41 -0400
From: Chris Shoemaker <c.shoemaker@cox.net>
To: Mark Watts <m.watts@eris.qinetiq.com>
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Subject: Re: ftp.kernel.org
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On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 09:41:38AM +0100, Mark Watts wrote:
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> > On Thu, 27 May 2004, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> > >They switched to vsftpd very recently ... presumably then.
> >
> > That would explain it.  The default is to turn it off.
> >
> > >Why would you mirror via ftp, instead of rsync anyway?
> >
> > I have more control with mirror.  And I've been using mirror for
> > *ahem* a decade.  I've been using rsync for mirroring debian, but
> > it's slow and often fails to complete.  Mirror has never let me
> > down ('tho it has deleted entire archives before *grin*)
> 
> Agreed - fmirror is so much more reliable than rsync (imho) that it makes 
> rsync into a worst-case option for retrieving files.
> 

  bug reports to rsync@lists.samba.org are appreciated...

-chris

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