Mirroring: Bad datestamps prevent hardlinking

[Axel Thimm]

On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 10:27:18AM -0700, Greg Bailey wrote:
> Jesse Keating wrote:
> 
> >On Sat, 2005-03-26 at 23:31 +0100, Axel Thimm wrote:
> > 
> >
> >>Could the parts that are mirrored from Red Hat be timestamped back to
> >>their original values? For instance:
> >>
> >>58217 Oct 29  2003
> >>download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/1/SRPMS/ncompress-4.2.4-34.src.rpm
> >>58217 Feb 27  2004
> >>download.fedoralegacy.org/fedora/1/os/SRPMS/ncompress-4.2.4-34.src.rpm
> >>
> >>This would allow mirrors of both RH and FL to run hardlink over the
> >>folders and rescue some bits.
> >>   
> >>
> >
> >Got a good suggestion on how to do that w/out re-downloading every file
> >from RH mirrors?
> >
> > 
> >
> Wouldn't running rsync over the mirrored parts go fairly quickly if you 
> already have the full fileset?  I recall doing this sort of thing when I 
> was a RedHat mirror admin in a former life.  It didn't take long at all 
> with the speedup rsync provides.

Yes, that would be the easiest. And if one wants to tune this, one can
use the -B switch to rsync to use larger blocks for the checksums, but
that's probably not neccessary.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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