Re: Debmirror

["Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com>]

On Sat, Jun 05, 2021 at 02:34:12AM -0400, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote:
> Hi !
> I've did a mirror with debmirror.
> All seem good when I look at the folders and files.
> But when I do apt-update it complains about contents-amd64 file missing !?
> 
> Got some ideas?
> -- 
> Polyna-Maude R.-Summerside
> -Be smart, Be wise, Support opensource development
> 

If none of the debmirror and similar work well, consider ftpsync.
It's extremely reliable, runs as one process and *just works* for
me and several others. It's written in shell script. It also provides
verbose login.

One config file will mirror a complete Debian mirror using rsync.
Because it's rsync based, you can rerun it if you need to so you can
run it several times to build up a mirror over the course of a week
to start with, for example.

I ran mine from a cron job four times a day - updates are now pushed
to me from a main Debian mirror.

I wrote this up for Planet Debian at:

http://flosslinuxblog.blogspot.com/2020/02/rebuilding-mirror-software-mirroring-of.html

and

http://flosslinuxblog.blogspot.com/2020/02/rebuilding-mirror-fedora-epel-mirroring.html

[I now only mirror Debian and Ubuntu - notably, it is recommended that you do
NOT mirror debian-security - having single known mirrors for these on the
Internet prevents you from accidentally mirroring out of date packages].

Hope this helps

Andy C.