mirroring archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu with rsync

Daniel B ubuntu at plumcreek.us
Mon Oct 18 15:57:55 UTC 2004


I'm in the process of setting up a local mirror of 
archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu so that I can update all of my ubuntu 
machines quickly (with packages from from universe and restricted as 
needed).

What I've done is set up a web server and then, from within the root 
webserver directory run the command:

rsync -avz rsync://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu ./ubuntu

Which created a folder named ubuntu and a bunch of subfolders within it 
(a mirror of archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu). I can then set up synaptic on 
each ubuntu machine to point to the local repository (in my case 
http://192.168.0.2/ubuntu).

That's all working fine and I have main and restricted mirrored. I'm 
about halfway through getting universe mirrored (my net connection is 
spotty so it's taking some time, which is one of the reasons for 
creating a local mirror in the first place), but I am running out of 
disk space on my server. I have access to extra hard drives, but my 
question is this:

What is the size of the repository at archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu ?

I might have enough space on the current drive, and if so, that would 
be preferred.

Thanks.

-- Daniel





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