Using wget to mirror just part of a web site?

[Garrett Cooper]

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stan wrote:
> I looked at the mirror port, and it seemded complex to set up, 
> and looks like it is not bieng manitaned any more as  teh link
> reference in it's man page is dead.
> 
> So I figure I can use wget to mirror the web sties I need to mirror.
> 
> I have it mostly working I'm suing something like:
> 
> wget -m -nH -r http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists -o /var/log/${site}_mirror.log
> 
> But that gets the whole sit. What I want to do is just start at the
> toop of the "ubuntu/dists" tree.
> 
> What am I doing wrong?
> 

I think this is the option you want:

- From recursive section of wget(1):

- -np
- --no-parent
	Do not ever ascend to the parent directory when retrieving 		
recursively.  This is a useful option, since it guarantees
	that only the files below a certain hierarchy will be
	downloaded.

- -Garrett
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