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9 <center><big><big><strong>How to get the scenery from a rsync server</strong></big></big></center>
12 Here you will learn how to mirror (in this case) the <a href="http://www.flightgear.org"
13 target="_blank">FlightGear</a> scenery from my server to your local hard
14 drive. But you can easily adapt this on other rsync servers because the
15 procedure is nearly the same.
19 First of all you need <strong>a lot</strong> free hard disk space before you
20 can start. 4 gigs left might be to much but should not hurt. :) So let us start
21 with the sync procedure, shall we?
25 Get a console window (unter Linux a terminal box) ready and find a place where
26 you want to have your scenery downloaded to. In my example I asume that you
27 want to create a new directory for your scenery. Then create the sub
28 directories <strong>Airports</strong>, <strong>Terrain</strong> and
29 <strong>Objects</strong> and start the rsync process in both directories.
33 To fast for you? Okay! Here are my commands I have entered:
40 mkdir Terrain # The first letter must be capitalized...
41 mkdir Objects # ... and don't miss the <strong>s</strong> here.
42 mkdir Airports # ... and the <strong>s</strong> again!
43 rsync -a rsync://flightgear.mxchange.org/Terrain/ ./Terrain/
44 rsync -a rsync://flightgear.mxchange.org/Objects/ ./Objects/
45 rsync -a rsync://flightgear.mxchange.org/Airports/ ./Airports/
50 <strong>Discontinued service:</strong> Due to low disk space on my server I
51 had to discontinue my rsync server. You can still download the whole scenery
52 <a href="pub/fgfs/Scenery/" target="_blank">from my server</a>.
56 That should take a long time so you may want to setup a small script
57 containing these commands and while download is running you may want
58 to take out your dog for a walk. :-)
62 After this there is only one step left: Use the new path
63 <strong>~/fgfs-scenery/</strong> as the new scenery path for FlightGear.
64 To do so simply call <em>fgfs</em> with the parameter <strong>--fg-scenery=~/fgfs-scenery/</strong>.
68 <big><strong>Meet you in FGFS. :)</strong></big>
72 PS: My manually mirrored download archive for FlightGear can be found
73 <a href="pub/" target="_blank">here</a>. So take a look around. :)
78 Created: <strong>2008-03-29</strong> |
79 Last update: <strong>2011-02-05</strong> |
80 Author: <a href="mailto:roland_NOSPAM_@_REMOVE_THIS_mxchange_AND_THIS_.org">Roland Häder</a><br />
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