Re: Best practices for updating systems over extremely slow links

2016-10-28 Thread Richard Owlett
On 10/28/2016 4:14 AM, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 03:45:21PM +, rbraun204 . wrote: I have a couple of debian boxes in very remote areas that are connected back to our wan via a 56kbps satellite link. Most of the time we have a constant stream of data coming/going to

Re: Best practices for updating systems over extremely slow links

2016-10-28 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
Hi On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 03:45:21PM +, rbraun204 . wrote: > I have a couple of debian boxes in very remote areas that are connected back > to > our wan via a 56kbps satellite link. Most of the time we have a constant > stream of data coming/going to that machine so the link is saturated

Re: Best practices for updating systems over extremely slow links

2016-10-27 Thread emetib
hello. don't know how many different set ups that you have going on in the boondocks, yet if they are basically all the same you could install a virtual machine(s) at your location that copies what is at your distant locations. this is from page 108 of the debian handbook(comments added) -

Best practices for updating systems over extremely slow links

2016-10-27 Thread rbraun204 .
I have a couple of debian boxes in very remote areas that are connected back to our wan via a 56kbps satellite link. Most of the time we have a constant stream of data coming/going to that machine so the link is saturated quite a bit. I'm having all sorts of trouble getting apt to play nicely