Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
Klaus Klein <k.klein@gmx.de> writes:Goswin von Brederlow wrote:... You do realize that debmirror supports a conffile, right?Another well kept secret. :-( It's not mentioned in 'man debmirror', 'info debmirror' nor 'debmirror --help'. Did I miss anything? 'man debmirror.conf' doesn't give me any info about the content of a /etc/debmirror.conf or /$home/debmirror.conf (just found those within the perl code) either. :-(/usr/share/doc/debmirror/debmirror.conf
Well worth mentioning it in 'man debmirror' and 'debmirror --help' ;-)
As a stab in the dark I would guess the ftpserver or your providers proxy closes the connection silently after every X files on its own and does not correctly reopen it.
Sounds reasonable. I guess I start to investigate right there.
Why do you think that ftp is the worst protocol for debmirror?Because it has to open a new data connect for every single file. For small files the overhead of a tcp handshake is a killer.
Any chance to get a 'hash' like process indication with http?Cheers, Klaus