Posted by isilrion on Fri 18 Nov 2005 at 12:49
I have a very slow internet connection at home (I'm lucky when I reach 3k/sec), where I use Debian. As my university keeps a local mirror, I decided to copy it and have it readily available from home. The problem is, every time I want to update it, I must take out my hard disk, fill the paperwork required to get it into the university and download/rsync the mirror.
I've been looking for an alternative, perhaps an utility that will take a "snapshot" of my local repository at home, and then at school find what needs to be updated, hopefully it will fit in a few CDs if I do it frequently enough. I have not found anything, I'm about to implement it myself if I can't find something that may help me... Do you know of any "offline directory synchronization" tool like this, or any alternative solution to my problem?
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