mhoyeJul 14, 2023

I love that Project Gutenberg has a page on how to use rsync to copy their entire collection.

https://www.gutenberg.org/help/mirroring.html#Using_Rsync

I also love that they tell you at the end of that how to put it in a cron job so you just have an always up to date copy.

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Show threadNelson MinarJul 14, 2023
@mhoye also they recommend you have "T1 (~1.5Mb symmetric) or faster permanent network connection". That's, what, half a shitty DSL connection?
Show threadmhoyeJul 14, 2023
@nelson I don't think that you can buy a home internet connection that slow anymore.
Show threadAlbert ARIBAUD ✎

@mhoye @nelson However you may buy a home internet connection with a less-than-stellar upload speed (compared to your download speed), which, as PG says, would not be good for mirroring.

(added fun fact: saturating, or even getting close to, your upload speed will quite certainly cause your download speed to collapse.)

Jul 15, 2023 at 6:52amWeb