[ubuntu-za] Apt-cacher-ng mirroring

[frans]

On 11/05/19 14:36 PM, Ricardo Botha wrote:
> Good Day Charl,
>
> As per attached screen shot I understand that apt-cacher-ng can be 
> used for mirroring.
>
> Notice at the bottom it has options for mirroring, am I wrong?
>
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> *From: * "Charl Wentzel" <charl.wentzel at vodamail.co.za>
> *Date: *Thu, 19 May 2011 12:03:49 +0200
> *To: *Ricardo Botha<irmandos at gmail.com>; Raymond 
> Barbour<xraya4t at gmail.com>
> *Cc: *<ubuntu-za at lists.ubuntu.com>
> *Subject: *Re: [ubuntu-za] Apt-cacher-ng mirroring
>
> Hi Ricardo
>
> Apt-cacher-ng is not the tool for this. It only downloads that which 
> is requested and the only keeps it for a limited time.
>
> Charl
>
> Sent from my HTC
>
>
>
looking at the image you attached apt-cacher would mirror the packages 
you are using, probably keeping it up to date, on the apt proxy, if you 
decide to use this, only the files that passes through the proxy would 
be mirrored and the rest would only be cached when you first download 
it.  if you would like to mirror the repositories I would agree that you 
should look at something like apt-mirror, as apt-cacher-ng is not a 
dedicated mirror but rather a proxy server for your packages, cutting 
down on bandwith by not needing to get the same updates 50 times on 50 
different computers.

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