approximative size for a binary mirror?

[Colin Law]

On 12 January 2012 14:22, Mihamina Rakotomandimby <mihamina at rktmb.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I would like to locally mirror:
>
> - oneiric main restricted universe multiverse
> - oneiric-updates main restricted universe multiverse
> - oneiric-security main restricted universe multiverse
>
> According to your experience, how much space should I clear?
> Only for binary. "deb-src" will pull from official mirrors per-need.
>
> I have about 100GB free on a box, if more is needed I should consider buying
> an external USB drive.
>
> I want to locally mirror because of bandwidth concerns (numbers of machines
> to keep up to date and limited internet bandwidth), using apt-mirror (I'd
> choosed it over debmirror).

Not answering the question, but just in case you are not aware of it,
you may be interested in squid-deb-proxy
http://askubuntu.com/questions/3503/best-way-to-cache-apt-downloads-on-a-lan
It works great for me and you only need space for the stuff that is
actually used as it downloads it the first time it is asked for.  Also
it works for multiple versions of ubuntu at the same time and is
trivial to setup.

Colin