TrixBox ISO's available via rSync..

I just figured I'd make a quick posting as the old topic name is kind of misleading, but you can find the overall discussion under this thread:

http://www.trixbox.org/forums/trixbox-forums/open-discussion/jigd...

In short, it seems people using rSync can actually update from one revision ISO, to the newer revision ISO, and transfer one heck of a lot less data. Granted you can still get the full ISO if desired. As it sounded like some were interested in this, I figured I'd stuff an rsync server on one of my machines, and see if anyone found it useful, since I don't have any real shortage of bandwidth at this time.

I have the following files on the rSync server at this time:

trixbox-2.2.12.iso
trixbox-2.4.0.RC4.iso

I will add new ISO's as they are released so people can attempt the smaller updates if desired.

OK, so you have rSync and want to try and get the files, just do the following:

To see what files are in the archive, do:

rsync trixbox.leadmon.net::trixbox

you will see something like this:

-rw-r--r-- 571287552 2007/12/11 09:44:45 trixbox-2.2.10.iso
-rw-r--r-- 60 2007/12/13 11:12:04 trixbox-2.2.10.md5
-rw-r--r-- 95 2007/12/13 11:18:14 trixbox-2.2.10.sha256
-rw-r--r-- 513028096 2007/12/28 11:50:10 trixbox-2.2.12.iso
-rw-r--r-- 60 2007/12/28 21:27:40 trixbox-2.2.12.md5
-rw-r--r-- 95 2007/12/28 21:28:30 trixbox-2.2.12.sha256
lrwxr-xr-x 18 2007/12/28 21:28:53 trixbox-2.2_current.iso
-rw-r--r-- 687984640 2007/12/27 21:13:23 trixbox-2.4.0.RC4.iso
-rw-r--r-- 63 2007/12/28 13:41:45 trixbox-2.4.0.RC4.md5
-rw-r--r-- 98 2007/12/28 13:42:35 trixbox-2.4.0.RC4.sha256
lrwxr-xr-x 21 2007/12/28 13:43:31 trixbox-2.4_current.iso

FYI, testfile is just a small text file, so one can try a transfer without having to get a huge image.

OK, so now you want to grab the ISO so let's say 2.4 as it's the most current code, so you would just use the following command to write that ISO to a file locally.

rsync -v trixbox.leadmon.net::trixbox/trixbox-2.4_current.iso

This will transfer the ISO to you, or if you already have an older ISO named trixbox-2.4_current.iso, then it will compare it, and only transfer the bits needed to update you to the more current ISO image you desire.

As always you can grab the MD5 checksums to make sure you got the file right, or better yet the SHA256 checksums if you can use them.

Hopefully this might be a help to some.. Regards...