Apt-mirror (1) Linux Manual Page

NAME

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>

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