approximative size for a binary mirror?

[Marius Gedminas]

On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 05:22:02PM +0300, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I would like to locally mirror:
> 
> - oneiric main restricted universe multiverse
> - oneiric-updates main restricted universe multiverse
> - oneiric-security main restricted universe multiverse
> 
> According to your experience, how much space should I clear?
> Only for binary. "deb-src" will pull from official mirrors per-need.

I don't know the answer, but https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mirrors has some
numbers.

> I have about 100GB free on a box, if more is needed I should
> consider buying an external USB drive.
> 
> I want to locally mirror because of bandwidth concerns (numbers of
> machines to keep up to date and limited internet bandwidth), using
> apt-mirror (I'd choosed it over debmirror).

Squid would probably save you disk space _and_ bandwidth, since you'd
only mirror packages your machines use, instead of the entire archive.

There are packages that set up Squid-based apt proxies, but I've never
used any them.  apt-cacher? apt-cacher-ng? approx?  squid-deb-proxy?
The last one sounds most promising (there's squid-deb-proxy and
squid-deb-proxy-client, which gives me hope it might be enough to simply
apt-get install the relevant packages on the server and clientas;
apparently they all autoconfigure via Avahi.).

Marius Gedminas
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