Zsync ISO

[ibm450]

Hi all
I want to try the MX-23_KDE_beta1_x64.iso.rsync but want to know how to utilise this approach?

Is there a script in here that someone has already made to zsync the iso?

i have a rough idea but not sure about the wget url? or am i doing it wrong?

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#!/bin/bash
sudo dnf install -y zsync
wget <base_iso_url>
cd ~/Downloads
zsync MX-23_KDE_beta1_x64.iso.zsync

also would it be faster to do the rsync using temporary RAM mount with the iso sitting inside of it:

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sudo mount -t tmpfs tmpfs /mnt -o size=15024m

[DukeComposed]

You don't need to use zsync. Also, zsync and rsync are entirely different things and are not compatible.

Please review the man page for using zsync. It's available online for convenience: https://linux.die.net/man/1/zsync

zsync is most effective when downloading incremental changes to a file you already have. If you don't have a copy of the ISO, just using wget or curl would probably be more effective. You can literally just go to https://sourceforge.net/projects/mx-lin ... o/download and download the ISO more easily than fetching a .zsync file and then trying to decipher the command to download it with zsync.

[Adrian]

zsync is also only helpful if you have a similar ISO (like for example trying to get a Beta2 and you have a Beta1 iso and you'd like to download only the difference)

We have a zsync-snapshot.sh https://sourceforge.net/projects/mx-lin ... Snapshots/ that is trying to simplify that with SourceForge because you actually need the URL of the mirror not even sure if it's working right now haven't tried that in years. We still generate that file because we have some people who are fans of it but for people who have fast downloads is not really relevant, I can get a full ISO file in 1-2 min. anyway.

[LAP]

How do you download an .iso or .img with a .zsync file? Copying the link address/URL doesn't always work and you have to delete the "s" out of the https:// part of the address to get it to work.

[Eadwine Rose]

Please don't dig up old topics. Locked.