[TriLUG] rsync question

[Lee]

Roy Vestal wrote:

>Before we get started, yes I'm a *nix admin who has *never* used rsync. Now
>with that out of the way:
>
>I'd like to setup an rsync to copy a mirror for our internal site. I have
>already used wget to download the mirror to my internal server but I'd like
>to rsync it to stay up to date. I'd like to run it as a cron job.
>  
>
Roy,
A mirror of what? From where? For instance, lets say it is the gentoo 
source mirror on ibiblio. As I understand it the command to keep it up 
to date would be:
"rsync www.ibiblio.org::gentoo /path/to/your/mirror"
Note the double colon that indicates you are connecting to an rsync server.