On Fri, 25 Aug 2006, David M. Cooke wrote:

> I've successfully mirrored SL41.  I've even got a local site built and
> functioning and installed on 100 or so systems.
> 
> My problem is updating the distribution.  If I use rsync or lftp as
> described in the howto and tips to update my mirror from
> scientificlinux.org then it deletes my site.  Yes, I've tried the "--
> exclude" options but they exclude things on the remote end.  I need it
> to ignore the site directory on my end.

I use "--exclude" all the time to exclude site directories

--exclude=sites/Fermi

Is what I use.

-Connie Sieh
> 
> I'm not very experienced in using rsync or lftp so I may be missing
> something obvious.  Does anyone else use the site feature of SL?  How
> have you solved this?
> 
> David
> 
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