[Here for anyone else that may need it - probably offtopic for this list
after that.]
On Sun, May 22, 2022 at 12:19:27AM +0800, Zhang Boyang wrote:
On 2022/5/21 22:54, Linux-Fan wrote:
I admit a local mirror is more suitable for large set of computers.
But for a small set of computers, for example, 1-5 computers,
setting up a local mirror might be too heavy.
Actually I think this may be a misconception. Setting up a mirror for internal use is (from my experience with the `ftpsync` script, cf. https://www.debian.org/mirror/ftpmirror) pretty straight-forward. AFAIK
the minimal steps are as follows:
- Download and extract ftpsync to a location
- Configure distrib/etc/ftpsync.conf
- Setup a webserver to serve the mirror directory
- Invoke mirror script
- Then point clients to the webserver location
Thanks for this information. I think I overestimated the difficulty of creating a mirror.
Quoting myself - which might be bad form
http://flosslinuxblog.blogspot.com/2020/02/rebuilding-mirror-software-mirroring-of.html
gives the full steps to set up a mirror by editing one script, more or less.
You do need rsync and a mirror to pull from but this is really, really easy to do.
Setting up Apache is covered in another blog in that series at almost the
same time - it's essentially just unocmmenting the stanza for /srv in the default configuration. [My mirror directories are all under /srv ]
Hope this helps,
Andy Cater
Best Regards,
Zhang Boyang
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