What do folks use to mirror repositories

From	Sam <sam@email-scan.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	What do folks use to mirror repositories
Date	2022-04-15 13:20 +0200
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That's pretty much it. I want to mirror all my updates to a single server on  
my LAN and have everything on my LAN apt update from it. This seems more  
efficient than having everyone download their own copies.

Google told me to use apt-mirror. My updates repository turned out to have  
some metadata filename with an @ in it, apt-mirror refuses to do anything  
with this state of affairs. I learned (after poking apt-mirror's page( that  
this bug was two years old, but the project is not maintained any more.  
Digging through aptly-mirror's bug tracker I caught a reference to aptly.

I got aptly to work, after applying a reasonable amount of elbow grease. The  
only unsolvable problem was that after taking a few seconds to download a  
handful of updates it takes aptly well over an hour to republish the local  
repository snapshot, to incorporate those updates. The full repository adds  
up to about 18000 packages, and looks like aptly recompresses each one of  
them, every time. I don't know why but that's what it does. I see it  
launching xz over and over again, while aptly keeps me in the loop of how  
many of those 18000 packages are left to process.

Although I don't need to worry about wearing any SSDs (since it's spinning  
rust), this is still somewhat suboptimal. So, that brings me to: what do  
folks use to mirror repositories?

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What do folks use to mirror repositories Sam <sam@email-scan.com> - 2022-04-15 13:20 +0200
  Re: What do folks use to mirror repositories <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-04-15 13:40 +0200
    Re: What do folks use to mirror repositories Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2022-04-15 14:30 +0200
    Re: What do folks use to mirror repositories David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2022-04-16 04:10 +0200
      Re: What do folks use to mirror repositories Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2022-04-16 06:20 +0200
        Re: What do folks use to mirror repositories Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2022-04-19 03:10 +0200
          Re: What do folks use to mirror repositories Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2022-04-19 05:10 +0200
          Re: What do folks use to mirror repositories <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-04-19 07:30 +0200
            Re: What do folks use to mirror repositories David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-04-19 18:10 +0200
              Re: What do folks use to mirror repositories Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2022-04-19 19:00 +0200
                Re: What do folks use to mirror repositories Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside <debian@polynamaude.com> - 2022-04-19 19:10 +0200
                Re: What do folks use to mirror repositories Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2022-04-20 01:50 +0200
          Re: What do folks use to mirror repositories Tim Woodall <debianuser@woodall.me.uk> - 2022-04-19 20:20 +0200
  Re: What do folks use to mirror repositories "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2022-04-15 14:30 +0200
  Re: What do folks use to mirror repositories Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com> - 2022-04-15 17:20 +0200
  Re: What do folks use to mirror repositories David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-04-15 18:40 +0200
  Re: What do folks use to mirror repositories Dieter Rohlfing <dr-erc@gmx.net> - 2022-04-16 11:30 +0200

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