Re: Rsync frequency

Jordi Espasa Clofent wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Following the instructions and advices that Jane Johansson send to me 
> through private mail, I'm building a new FTP mirror at present moment 
> into my enterprise datacenter (my boss is a good guy, of course).
> 
> I'm getting the initial data from rsync://rsync.de.openbsd.org/OpenBSD/ 
> using rsync.
> When I'll finish it I'll do a simple shell script to rsync periodically 
> via cron.
> 
> ?How often this re-sync script should be?

I sync every 6 hours or so, but I also make sure the previous rsync 
isn't running before kicking a new one, for those cases when all 
packages update at once or so.