>Other proposals in the past to do similar things have failed, or >require more time for development before they are usable: > >- rsync: uses too much load on the server. Why uses rsync too much load? Why don't you rsync Packages uncompressed? I don't know how much it's producing load on the server, but rsync'ing Packages uncompressed needs around 6 times less time than compressed, even if it's 3 times larger. O. Wyss