Erik: Copy from old

2009-06-06T21:37:33Z

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Rysnc is a great tool for backing up things, downloading things and
keeping up with Slackware -current. Why? Because say you have a lot of
files in /home/$USER/slackware/ that you want to update, say with the
newest -current. ( These files would be the files off of your
Slackware 10.1 disk, on the folder /slackware on the root of the
Slackware disk) rsync would only download what is new and can also
erase what is no longer there, this could save a lot of bandwidth. So
where do we begin? Lets use a Slackware mirror and actually update
your Slackware 10.1 cd , to -current. So we will use a Slackware
mirror:

rsync inferno.bioinformatics.vt.edu::

The above command would list the modules on the rsync server. Well
what is a module? A module is something that people export their files
and directories to in a module format. So someone running a rsync
server could make a module called "slackware" and export
"/home/slackware/". Then the user could download all or some of the
files in that module. Now lets list the files and directories of the
module we need:

rsync inferno.bioinformatics.vt.edu::slackware

See from the above you can see the slackware versions we could all
download. Since we have our slackware 10.1 in /home/$USER/slackware
and we want to upgrade to -current, we could use this command:

rsync -rvz --delete inferno.bioinformatics.vt.edu::slackware/slackware-current/slackware/ /home/$USER/slackware/

Now this command looks weird at first, but lets examine. First the -r
means recursive ( Meaning it goes through all the sub directories and
downloads ). Next we see -v which means verbose, so we can see what is
going on, next the -z. This means compress, it will compress the
things so it will shorten the bandwidth requirement. The --delete
means that it will delete anything that the server doesn't have, this
would make an exact mirror copy:)! That pretty much sums that command
up.

So since this was a simple rsync tutorial and pretty much told you how
to download Slackware -current an efficient way, read UPGRADE.txt to
find out how to fully upgrade your box:)

Thanks for reading, Sandy

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