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Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2011 14:52:39 -0800
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L Anderson wrote:
> For many years I have used rsync to mirror cygwin/release from various
> rsync mirrors listed on Cygwin's mirror page. Over time, the number of
> rsync mirrors listed has slowly gotten smaller until, alas, now there
> are no more listed.
>
> Does this mean:
> There are no longer sites willing to offer rsync?
> rsync has become deprecated?
> There's a problem with whatever generates the mirror list?
> I can no longer use rsync to maintain my own local mirror?
> ??
>
> Any information/clarification on this would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Lowell Anderson
>

Hey! Some rsync mirrors are back on the list--now you see them, now you 
don't, now you do---just how does all this work?

LA


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