On 5/6/24 00:53, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2024-05-05 19:19, Lew Wolfgang wrote:
On 5/5/24 01:05, Rodney Baker wrote:
On Sunday, 5 May 2024 04:44:09 ACST Lew Wolfgang wrote:
Hi Folks,
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Apt-cacher-ng is available for openSUSE (including TW) but it's necessary to add the server:proxy repo to get it.
Thanks for the suggestion Rodney. But in my case it really makes sense to have a completely local copy of repositories. My off-network machines are completely off-network, the only way to import data is to carry physical media down the hallway and plug it in after checking for malware.
Having a local copy also allows easy creation of deltas using rsync. The size of the repos this morning is 1.3-TB, and since corporate policy demands that the media to import data be used only once, it would become expensive to sacrifice a disk drive every week. But the changes from week to week will fit onto a 32-GB SDcard, which can reasonably be used once and thrown away. I've got hundreds of them in my desk drawer.
Would they accept CD or DVD? Burn once media.
Pointy haired boss comes to my mind. Ok, I go back to my cave, I said nothing :-)
🙂 You don't know the half of it, Carlos! Yes, optical media would work, but even DVD doesn't always have enough capacity. I'd have to use "split" with multiple DVD's. I tried BlueRay disks, but they were a bit funky and unreliable. The 32-GB SDcards work well and don't cost all that much. They're faster too! The PHB doesn't mind paying for them. I've used old spinners to move in the initial repositories. I've got probably dozens of old 1-TB disks that can be sacrificed. The initial load after a new Leap release will easily fit. A Sneaker-Net can have really high bandwidth! Regards, Lew