Rsync and incremental updates on top of Original CDs
Hi, Hoping that this is not a faq (I could not find an rsync-faq, btw.), I am looking for the answer to the following question: Once one has the latest 2.2_rev2 Official CD's (let's say I bought them), can rsync be used to incrementally update these w/o drastic network traffic, once 2.2_revX or 2.3 or 3 ... etc become available ? Well, actually I believe that in releases x.y with (x==2)^(y>2) or (x>2) too many packages would have changed making this question quite silly, but I would still appreciate a decisive expert opinion. Many thanks in advance -Arifi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Rsync and incremental updates on top of Original CDs
On Sat, 17 Feb 2001, arifi wrote: > Hoping that this is not a faq (I could not find an rsync-faq, btw.), it's so simple there are few FAQs :-) > I am looking for the answer to the following question: > > Once one has the latest 2.2_rev2 Official CD's (let's say I bought > them), can rsync be used to incrementally update these w/o drastic > network traffic, once 2.2_revX or 2.3 or 3 ... etc become available ? yes - you would have to dd the cd images to your hard disk to work with (of course) > Well, actually I believe that in releases x.y with (x==2)^(y>2) or > (x>2) too many packages would have changed making this question quite > silly, but I would still appreciate a decisive expert opinion. you will find anywhere from a 30% upto a 60% saving in bandwidth using rsync for this. (at least i did for rev0 -> rev2). of course if you are using the pseudo image kit 2.X, you will get more like 90% savings if you have a local full debian mirror available to build the images instead. i expect rsync savings on packages to get significantly better once gzip is able to be --rsyncable - but i don't know the timeline on them getting that accepted and out there. regards, -jason -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Previously Zbigniew Bojko wrote: > Please send me the address of Debian CD-ROM seller in Poland. > The address on your Web Page is not actual. Which address exactly is invalid, and on what page? Wichert. -- _ / Nothing is fool-proof to a sufficiently talented fool \ | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.liacs.nl/~wichert/ | | 1024D/2FA3BC2D 576E 100B 518D 2F16 36B0 2805 3CB8 9250 2FA3 BC2D | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]