I'm using a program called mirror (http://sunsite.org.uk/packages/mirror/) (which is actually a perl script) to mirror parts of the SuSE site. I mirror from a UK mirror (ftp.mirror.ac.uk) which is a major mirroring facility hosted at the University of Kent, UK to try and save SuSE's bandwidth. Hope this helps, Paul Miles All Secure Networks Visit www.allsecuredomain.com for low cost web hosting and domain registration ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Garnier" <david.garnier@etudier-online.com> To: <suse-linux-e@suse.com> Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2001 2:10 PM Subject: [SLE] Mirroring SuSE 7.3 Hello, I'd like to mirror SuSE 7.3 for the students of my school (everybody was impressed by my SuSE 7.2). We are behind are really overloaded firewall/proxy, so conserving bandwitdh is important. I tried to use wget using this command: wget ftp://ftp.iut-bm.univ-fcomte.fr/pub/Suse/suse/7.3/ -Y on -m -np This seems to be going trough the HTTP proxy instead of the FTP one, but otherwise it works fine. The problem is related to the full-names directory of the distribution. This directory contains links to the corresponding packages in suse/somedir/. It seems that wget just resolves the links instead of recreating them locally. So basically, every package is downloaded twice... So my question is: how to get the full-names directory right, using wget or something else. BTW, some mirrors marked as complete on this page: http://www.suse.de/us/support/download/ftp/int_mirrors.html aren't complete after all (many packages are missing from the distributions). Best regards, David Garnier -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq and the archives at http://lists.suse.com