apt-mirror (1) Linux Manual Page

apt-mirror – apt sources mirroring tool

Synopsis

apt-mirror [configfile]

Description

A small and efficient tool that lets you mirror a part of or the whole Debian GNU/Linux distribution or any other apt sources.

Main features:
 * It uses a config similar to apts sources.list
 * It’s fully pool comply
 * It supports multithreaded downloading
 * It supports multiple architectures at the same time
 * It can automatically remove unneeded files
 * It works well on overloaded channel to internet
 * It never produces an inconsistent mirror including while mirroring
 * It works on all POSIX complied systems with perl and wget

Comments

apt-mirror uses /etc/apt-mirror.list as a configuration file. By default it is tuned to official debian mirror in Finland. Change it for your needs.

After you setup the configuration file you may run as root:

 # su – apt-mirror -c apt-mirror

Or uncomment line in /etc/cron.d/apt-mirror to enable daily mirror upgrades.

Files

/etc/apt-mirror.list
  Main configuration file

/etc/cron.d/apt-mirror
  Cron configuration template

/var/spool/apt-mirror/mirror
  Mirror places here

/var/spool/apt-mirror/skel
  Place for temporarily downloaded indexes

/var/spool/apt-mirror/var
  Log files placed here. URLs and MD5 summs also here.

Known Bugs

Do not specify default http port (80) explicitly. (i.e. deb http://server:80/ sid …)

Author

Dmitry N. Hramtsov <hdn [at] nsu.ru>