On Sun, Jul 11, 2004 at 10:26:00AM +0100, Piers Kittel wrote: > Hello all, > > Am seriously considering mirroring testing for myself (faster updates, > installs etc due to having several computers) but due to only having a > 512k download ADSL, can't share it out, and want to check if the > bandwidth is good enough. How much update (as in size) on average > occurs each day / each week? Which would be best, mirror every night, > or mirror every week night? Also reading the mirror help file, it > mentions each distro can be between 5 to 8GB each - how much space > should I reserve for testing?
Do you really need *all* of testing? If you are only looking at having up-to-date packages for a LAN, I would look at apt-proxy. It allows you to direct apt requests through 1 local machine, thus all the LAN benefits from its cache of packages. > > Thanks very much for your help in advance > > Cheers - Piers -- Chris Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ------------------------------------------- GNU/Linux --- The best things in life are free. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
