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On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 03:32:57PM +0000, Rob Beard wrote: > I've love to setup something like this but at 17GB I just haven't got > the space at the moment. Might be something I'll look into for a future > Ubuntu install day. > For the cost of a hard disk, post & packing + time and expenses I'll sell you a copy of any and/or all of the copies I have. :) (serious offer) > Is it possible to start mirroring the repositories and then stop them > and restart them? > Yup. I happen to run mine every day but there's no reason i couldn't run it weekly, monthly or ad-hoc. > What I'm thinking is that I get off-peak bandwidth of 300GB and only > 45GB peak. I don't really want to use a quarter of my peak bandwidth > downloading a load of packages. Either that or could it be setup to > limit the download speed? (that way I could set something going on a box > at work over a week running at a slower speed). > Yeah, you could limit the bandwidth it uses, and leave it running. It uses wget, so you could set your bandwidth options in ~/.wgetrc as per the man page. But if you run it overnight at home it's going to eat some of the 300GB not the 45G allocation surely? Cheers, Al. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html