Re: Local mirroring How-To?
On Mar 12, 12:40 pm, "Stackpole, Chris" <CStackp...@barbnet.com>
wrote:
> > From: Dennis Wicks [mailto:w...@mgssub.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 11:22 AM
> > Subject: Local mirroring How-To?
>
> > Greetings;
>
> > I remember there was a discussion sometime back about this
> > but I can't locate it.
>
> > Here is my situation. I have six Debian/Lenny machines that
> > I have to update/upgrade at various times, and some of these
> > runs take hours for each system over my 768Kbs connection.
>
> > I have the space to install a local mirror of one or two
> > releases of Debian so I can do updates over my local net at
> > 100 Mbs and speed things up considerably.
>
> > But ... I can't find anything current about how to do that.
>
> > Does anybody have any pointers to a good, and current, set
> > of directions on how to do this? Or have a cookbook that
> > works for you?
>
> You probably don't want a full mirror. They are big (last doc I saw said
> 60GB per architecture/version). You want something that will only
> provide the packages you need/use.
>
I use the debmirror package to keep a local mirror of Lenny and
Testing.
(main, contrib and non-free). It "only" takes up about 28GB
Stuart
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