Re: [HACKERS] mirroring problem (www.postgresql.org)

On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, Vince Vielhaber wrote:

> On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, Thomas Lockhart wrote:
> 
> > > There is nothing configured on hub.org to exclude the 
> > > images directory...
> > 
> > Sorry in advance for the re/misdirection, but would CVSup be a
> > suitable alternative for this task? It is working *great* for me to
> > replicate the CVS tree, but it also handles normal directory trees. It
> > includes lots of compression optimizations and so is very fast...
> 
> What was used before rsync that was the bandwidth hog?  Wasn't cvs, was
> it?

Nope, ftp/mirror, except that ftp/mirror requires the client to do their
configuration cleanly, whereas with rsync I can setup our end to exclude
stuff (ie. ht/Dig databases)

Marc G. Fournier                   ICQ#7615664               IRC Nick: Scrappy
Systems Administrator @ hub.org 
primary: scrappy@hub.org           secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org