I used the information in this fedora mirror tutorial (thanks!), but I encountered some difficultes because I don't have rsync internet access here, and wget is limited in some way to do real mirroring like rsync. Then I found some new way to do the mirroring: using lftp command! lftp is powerful enough to work as the rsync command. It retrieves, checks the files within a local directory, updates it, deletes old files from the local disk, etc. It does recursive mirroring, and the main feature I was needing: it supports the downloads on HTTP/FTP throught authenticated proxy (squid). So it is a great tool for getting data in a non-rsync server. I think it is interesting to include this command in this tutorial. I used the following command to make an updates mirror for example: lftp -e "set mirror:exclude-regex $REGEXEXCLUDE && open $DIRREMOTO && mirror --delete --verbose && quit" - REGEXECLUDE is a regular expression that excludes files/directories from the mirroring. Perfect for excluding some archs or fedora releases as the tutorial explained. For example, I used the expression "debug\/|repodata\/" to exclude both debug/ and repodata/ directories in the updates to create my own with repodata command. - DIRREMOTO is the remote directory. For example, I used: http://mirror.linux.duke.edu/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/4/i386 - It retrieves and checks in the current directory (pwd). So it worked perfectly, and I would recommend it. If you need some help on more usage, consult man lftp or I can help too :) Thanks.
Excellent Hugo, thanks for the tip. I will get this added into the mirror-tutorial shortly.
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