On Tue, 2010-05-18 at 10:12 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Tuesday 18 May 2010 04:13:07 Bill Kenworthy wrote: > > > As an alternative check out http-replicator - yes the clients do > > download to a local directory but that can be cleaned afterwards. It > > also allows download locally when you know you are taking the machine > > (laptop?) elsewhere. > > Yet another approach is to have an rsync server on your LAN. In my case > it's the local server box (print, squid, mail etc). It's simple to set > up and to use, and all the boxes on the LAN can operate in their own > devious ways. >
The advantage of http-replicator is that it is a caching proxy - if it isnt in the cache, it downloads it and then serves it out to one or more clients - rsync/FTP/wget/... can just share whats already there, not go get the file in the first place. BillK -- William Kenworthy <bi...@iinet.net.au> Home in Perth!
