[mirror-admin] rsync start faster?

[Garret Picchioni]

The version I'm using is 3.0.2 and I've found it to be fairly reliable.

Garret

Linux at Duke wrote:
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> On Jul 30, 2008, at 7:25 PM, Garret Picchioni wrote:
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>> According to the Fedora Koji, the last version of rsync for Fedora 8 
>> was 2.6.9.  I'm guessing that specific feature was probably a 3.x 
>> addition (which is bundled with Fedora 9).  Compiling the latest 
>> rsync from source was a piece of cake though, I did this on our 
>> mirror running CentOS 5.2.
>>
>> Garret
>>>
>
> I tried this as well on CentOS 5.2, but ended up reverting to  stock 
> (2.6.8) when I had some odd issues and rsync failures when attempting 
> to sync from ibiblio at the time.  I didn't have time to chase it down 
> at the time.  I tested rsync-3.0.0.  Once my rsync issues with 
> downloading from Red Hat were sorted out, I switched back to Red Hat's 
> I2 connected rsync host but stayed on rsync 2.6.8.
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