Re: Debian mirror size

On 28.11.22 22:53, [email protected] wrote:
> I have setup debian mirror using official archvsync script suite.  Mirrored 
> architectures are: all source i386 amd64.  The rest of config for ftp-sync 
> is kept on default values.  Everything seems to work fine - only problem 
> is that the mirror is too small, at least according to this website: 
> 'www.debian.org/mirror/size'.  Sum of sizes for these architectures is 
> 1488GiB (give or take, data are changing every day), but I have only 
> 930GiB stored on disk dedicated for mirror.  There is no filesystem level 
> encryption involved (ext4) or anything like that.  There should be no 
> problem with master mirror (ftp.debian.cz), since I have tried multiple 
> different ones with no difference.  Are installation image sizes included 
> in these architecture sizes?  If not, what makes the difference?

# du -hs --exclude=\*_arm64.deb --exclude=\*_armel.deb --exclude=\*_armhf.deb --exclude=\*_mips.deb --exclude=\*_mips64el.deb --exclude=\*_mipsel.deb --exclude=\*_ppc64el.deb --exclude=\*_s390x.deb
962G    .
# df -h .
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/md4        2.6T  1.8T  668G  73% /mount/mirrors

I'd say your numbers are pretty accurate.

> And one last thing - everywhere is recommended not to sync 
> 'security.debian.org/debian-security' for security reasons.  I understand 
> why, but are packages in this repository rotated into regular debian 
> repository after a while? 

yes, debian point releases contain security updates.

> Just curious, since I do have some offline machines I update from my local 
> repository.

you can mirror security updates for them, but better don'd publish it and 
don't rely on it.

There are solutions like apt-offline, apt-cacher and others that could help 
you.