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Alan Pope wrote: > 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) > Not sure if I could afford it at the moment, money is a bit tight after buying yet another upgrade (Phenom 9600 - well the chip was free, I just had to pay for the motherboard). Still someone else in the LUG may be interested. >> 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. > That's good. >> 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? Yeah, I'd probably set it running overnight I think. I'm just thinking if I downloaded it at work using their connection I'd have to limit the rate to stop everyone moaning about me using all the free bandwidth, or I could run it at home over night (I'm sure at 500K a sec it wouldn't take any more than a couple of nights). Rob -- 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