[plug] traffic requirements for woody mirror

[Harry McNally]

At the PLUG meeting at UCC on Monday night I fetched most of the UWA debian 
mirror and should be dropping back this afternoon to finish the job; given 
a servicable motor car.

James B. let me use a very neat script using rsync to slurp the mirror from 
UWA ftp and which I can use through my 56K dialup to (hopefully) keep my 
mirror up to date. When Andrew says the mirror is 42GB, this is probably 
all architectures (or does it include source?). The James B. cunning script 
has a separate exclusion text file so I'm only getting the i386 parts of 
the mirror; no source.

Total US and non-US mirror for i386 is currently 6.8GB which is a bit more 
manageable.

If you want to go with this, I could probably connect up to your machine 
with a crossover cable and drop the mirror across at 100mbits which would 
be pretty swift.

If you want to maintain it you could ask James B. nicely for the use of his 
script. If Andrew sees traffic of 500MB for the full 42GB mirror a quick 
and dirty calculation suggests traffic will be 1/7 of 500 or about 70MB a 
day; less that 4 hours at 56K. Is this a useful assumption .. anyone ?

All the best
Harry

At 02:38  31/01/02 , you wrote:
>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,
> > >
><snip>
> > > 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?
> > >
>
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