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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
