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On Tue, 2010-05-18 at 10:12 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> On Tuesday 18 May 2010 04:13:07 Bill Kenworthy wrote: |
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> > As an alternative check out http-replicator - yes the clients do |
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> > download to a local directory but that can be cleaned afterwards. It |
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> > also allows download locally when you know you are taking the machine |
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> > (laptop?) elsewhere. |
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> Yet another approach is to have an rsync server on your LAN. In my case |
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> it's the local server box (print, squid, mail etc). It's simple to set |
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> up and to use, and all the boxes on the LAN can operate in their own |
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> devious ways. |
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The advantage of http-replicator is that it is a caching proxy - if it |
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isnt in the cache, it downloads it and then serves it out to one or more |
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clients - rsync/FTP/wget/... can just share whats already there, not go |
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get the file in the first place. |
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BillK |
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William Kenworthy <billk@×××××××××.au> |
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