[plug] traffic requirements for woody mirror

[Andrew Howell]

We run ftp.wa.au.debian.org and mirror all the architectures and dists.

It's around 500 MB a day in traffic.

The mirror is currently about 42 GB
non-US being another 2 GB.

Andrew

On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 04:23:23PM +0800, Grahame Bowland wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-01-25 at 15:49, Russell Steicke wrote:
> > Hello all,
> > 
> > Someone at work has setup a mirror of RedHat and Mandrake update RPMs
> > (for internal use only).  I'd like to get a debian archive added to the
> > list.  Actually doing the mirror via rsync is easy and well documented.
> > 
> > But I'd like to know what the traffic requirements are for maintaining a
> > woody archive: how many MB per week is used in updating things?
> > 
> > And I believe that UWA has a debian mirror.  If I turn up at one of the
> > UCC meetings, would they let me copy lots of the debian mirror to my
> > laptop so I could "seed" the work mirror?  (I imagine the powers would
> > be more likely to say yes to my request for a debian mirror if the
> > initial archive could be got for nothing.)
> 
> ftp.uwa.edu.au - it's all there. I have dropped a few architectures -
> after I had a look at the FTP logs I discovered nobody uses them and we
> were running out of disk space.
> 
> You'll need a lot of space free, and be warned that UCC only has 10Mb
> through to the UWA network so it'll take hours as well.
> 
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