mirroring hardware repository

[Michael E Brown]

On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 08:19:47AM -0400, Eric Yablonowitz wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Per one of Michael Brown's posts, I have been using lftp to mirror  
> the http://linux.dell.com/repo/software/ repository for a little  
> while now.  I would like to do the same with http://linux.dell.com/ 
> repo/hardware/.  However it appears that there are hard links being  
> used and my mirror had grown to over 10GB before I killed lftp.  Ah,  
> how easy this would be with rsync (and symlinks)!

The other option would be to mirror it one time, then use the 'hardlink'
utility to recreate all the hardlinks to shrink it back down.
--
Michael