Mirroring apt repository over ssh

Question

We have a apt repository running to distribute upgrades for our software. The repository is accessed over ssh and a public key authentication:

deb ssh://repo.server.com/dist stable

As the download connection from Europe to America is really slow, I thought about setting up a mirror of the repository. I was wondering what the best practice in that case is. I tried setting up a mirror with apt-mirror, but it seems like this doesn't support ssh. I looked into apt-cacher but it seems like that doesn't really fit my needs.

Can I just rsync all files from the repository and then create a new apt repo?

score -1 · Answer 1 · answered May 08 '14 at 02:08

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Why can't you just rsync the entire thing via SSH? You don't really need to create a new repository, you just need some way of directing your clients to use the local mirror instead of the remote one.

The entire Debian/Ubuntu mirror system is based entirely on rsync, so there's not really anything stopping you from just using rsync.

answered May 08 '14 at 02:08

devicenull

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So I just rsync the whole directory and then replace deb ssh://repo.server.com/dist stable with deb ssh://repo.newserver.com/dist stable in the corresponding mirror.list? – Kevin Goedecke May 08 '14 at 02:16
You don't need to replace anything, just rsync everything. – devicenull May 08 '14 at 02:17
And do I really need to rsync everything, its about 200GB. Can I only sync some parts of it? – Kevin Goedecke May 08 '14 at 02:52

Mirroring apt repository over ssh

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