mirroring archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu with rsync

Matt Zimmerman mdz at canonical.com
Mon Oct 18 18:07:27 UTC 2004


On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 10:57:55AM -0500, Daniel B wrote:

> 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).

Use a caching proxy server instead.  That way you don't waste time,
bandwidth and disk space downloading gigabytes of packages that you don't
use.

-- 
 - mdz




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