diff --git a/mirror.sh b/mirror.sh
index 1887564..2230247 100755
--- a/mirror.sh
+++ b/mirror.sh
@@ -3,10 +3,36 @@ DEFAULT_MIRROR_URL="rsync://repos.fyralabs.com/repo/"
 # This script is for mirroring repos.fyralabs.com to a local directory.
 
 # Default mirror directory: directory of script / repo
-
 : ${MIRROR_DIR:=$(dirname $0)/repo}
 : ${MIRROR_URL:=$DEFAULT_MIRROR_URL}
 
+# rsync binary to use
+: ${RSYNC:=rsync-ssl}
+
+# use parallel rsync?
+: ${PARALLEL:=1}
+
+MAX_THREADS=$(nproc)
+
+list_all_files() {
+    echo "Fetching file list"
+    # clean up all the folders too, I guess
+    $RSYNC -rt $MIRROR_URL | awk '{print $5}' | grep -v '/$' | sort | uniq
+}
+
+# now, parallelize the rsync using GNU parallel
+
+parallel_rsync() {
+    echo "Starting parallel rsync with $MAX_THREADS threads"
+    list_all_files | parallel -j $MAX_THREADS $RSYNC -avPz --mkpath $RSYNC_EXTRA_ARGS --delete $MIRROR_URL{} $MIRROR_DIR/{}
+}
+
 echo "Mirroring $MIRROR_URL to $MIRROR_DIR"
 
-rsync-ssl -avPzr $RSYNC_EXTRA_ARGS --delete $MIRROR_URL $MIRROR_DIR
+# rsync-ssl -avPzr $RSYNC_EXTRA_ARGS --delete $MIRROR_URL $MIRROR_DIR
+
+if [ $PARALLEL -eq 1 ]; then
+    parallel_rsync
+else
+    $RSYNC -avPzr $RSYNC_EXTRA_ARGS --delete $MIRROR_URL $MIRROR_DIR
+fi