Better way to mirror CPAN locally?

[Jason Clifford]

On Mon, 2012-05-07 at 13:21 +0100, gvim wrote:
> I currently use the script listed below, provided by Randall Schwartz, to mirror CPAN locally as I spend a lot of time Perl-ing without an internet connection. With CPAN now totalling around 2GB I'm wondering if there isn't a more efficient method as this script doesn't use any kind of rsync method and I end up just downloading the whole 2GB every time.

Why don't you use rsync?

http://www.cpan.org/misc/how-to-mirror.html#rsync