[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lennart Sorensen) writes:
> On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 12:59:35AM -0900, Fielder George Dowding wrote:
>> Regarding splitting the archives: it has taken eight days (640 kb/s DSL)
>> to build my local Debian AMD64 mirror. I also keep a local mirror for
>> the i386 architecture. I use these mirrors to install and update half a
>> dozen computers. It is much faster than the Internet even when I have a
>> DSL or cable connection.
>
> I find that using a proxy server to cache the files is a lot faster than
> trying to mirror everything since 90% of it you won't ever use on any
> machine.
>
> Len Sorensen
A while back someone said they were running a caching mirror of debian
as one of the official mirrors. They update the meta files every night
but only fetch debs on demand.
If Debian would officaly push that model I bet several of the smaler
mirros would jump on that wagon. All the mirrors with space/bandwith
problems anyway.
MfG
Goswin
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