debain mirrors

denzil · 11-02-2005, 08:29 AM

hai,
anyone tried mirroring debian..
the debian site said mirroring one architecture would require just 9GB,but the rsync command i have executed has already downloaded 27GB for i386 architecture alone,the pool coming upto 25 GB,
why s this..what did debian mean by 9GB..or is there anything that can be excluded while running the rsync command..

and what are the main requirements for being atleat a secondary mirror of debian..

please help out

denzil

yanik · 11-02-2005, 09:19 AM

what's your rsync command? Maybe you got it wrong and you are downloading the entire archive, which is around 120GB?

Have you look at apt-proxy?