Re: Debian archive requirements
Tim Ferrell writes:
> > > On Mon, Oct 18, 1999 at 06:36:18PM -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> > > > I recently tried to create a mirror of main on a 2GB disk, because I'm
> > > > sharing an apartment with several other people who use Debian, so it
> > > > would be nice to have a fast archive site. However, even just
> > > > unstable/main/binary-i386 filled up the entire 2GB. That's insane.
>
> Hmmm... this seems strange to me (unless I have missed something) because
> I mirror unstable binary-i386 main contrib non-free and non-us and it is
> only about 1.8GB. I have my mirror set up just like a subset of the ftp
> tree (symlinks to files under slink and binary-all) and I run mirror every
> few days to update it.
Well, I recently switched from the 'rsync' script I found at
www.debian.org/mirror to apt-move. Telling apt-move to exclude stuff
like quake, bible-kjv, kernel-image-*, kernel-source-*, and packages
for those languages I don't speak, I managed to whittle it down to
about a gigabyte.
However, this doesn't change the fact that the entire canonical archive is over
10 gigabytes. I recently fired off an email to the university I'm
studying at asking if they would be interested in mirroring Debian.
They are currently mirroring the RedHat distribution. Later, I
realized that their FTP server only has a 6 GB disk (it's an older
Sun system). I imagine they were probably intimidated by the sentence
"roughly 9GB (and growing)"[1], because they never replied.
[1] http://www.debian.org/mirror/size
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