Apt Backup Question

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 09:16:11AM +0000, david wrote:

> On Mon, 2005-01-03 at 22:51, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > What are you trying to accomplish?  It's generally not useful to back up
> > the apt cache, because it is just that (a cache), and its contents can
> > be easily restored from an Ubuntu CD or network archive.
> 
> Well, Some of us can either not afford, or have not the patience, to sit
> and wait while 400+MB of packages come down the wire (again).

Fortunately, you can receive free Ubuntu CDs via
http://shipit.ubuntulinux.org/ :-)

Or are you talking about security updates?  I'm fairly confident that there
aren't quite 400+MB of updates yet.  We have discussed the idea of making
security update CDs available for download, but so far there has been no
pressing need.

What I do personally is use a caching proxy server (squid), slightly tuned
for downloading packages, so that they are generally only downloaded once
from the Internet, and served to many local machines through the proxy.

-- 
 - mdz