howto mirror fedora.redhat.com/fedora/linux/core with rsync

[neil]

duncanbrown at linuxadvocate.net wrote:

>http://www.linuxadvocate.net/apt/apt-mirror/
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>well, i wanted to have the latest updates available within 24 hours, so
>(on my home server) i wrote a quickie script, apt-mirror.  it's not
>complete yet, but it'll work for you.
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>if you guy shave any questions, let me know.
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>-d
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>Sean Kennedy said:
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>>That's a damn shame.  Anybody know how/where to get a reliable
>>mirror?  Any recommendations?
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here's something I put together using rsync. It's not very pretty - but 
it works fine for my needs. I just have it run every night.
I use an exclude file because I don't like receiving the kernel via this 
method. All messages go to STDOUT - which is fine because I have this 
run via a cron job.
Hope it can be of use to you :-)
neil.

#!/bin/sh
cd /your/updates/path
MIRROR=rsync.mirror.ac.uk
MIRRORPATH=download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/1/i386/
MIRROROPTS=' -avz --delete --exclude-from=myexcludefile'
 
echo -n -e "${TCYAN}(Slowly) Mirroring updates ${TNORM}"
 
rsync $MIRROROPTS rsync://$MIRROR/$MIRRORPATH $UPDDIR
if [ $? != 0 ] ; then
   echo
   echo -e "${TRED}Mirroring failed for some reason!"
   failure
fi
#success
#done