Rsync November 9, 2006
Posted by faith in technology.trackback
Just learned how to rsync. Rsync is a program which allows you to download a large file (or directory), and synchronise the original with your copy just by comparing the two files. Hence no need to redownload the whole file again if corrupted or if a small part of it changes. Ingenious.
I needed to use this because I was trying to download the Knoppix Live DVD (over 4GB).
Not having *nix on my computer meant that I have to use cwRsync (a cygwin port of Rsync). Had a bit of difficulty to begin with, but http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/RsyncingALargeFileBeginner explained it all. I just had to guess as to what the correct “module” (non-*nix users read directory) was. Once I had that right, it worked a charm!
