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Mirror repositories to save bandwidth

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Mirror repositories to save bandwidth

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- [Instructor] When a Linux system needs to update packages, it reaches out to the distributions repositories for new software. There's usually at least a few or a dozen megabytes transferred in this operation. Downloading the list of software takes some bandwidth and, of course, downloading new software takes bandwidth too. For one system, or just for a few, this usually isn't a big deal. But if you have many systems, whether they're desktops or servers, this update activity can really start to add up, and it can eat into your bandwidth and cost you time or money. One solution to this is to set up a caching proxy that your clients use, which will store a copy of packages that are downloaded by a client to save bandwidth when other clients request the same package. But since the repository URL doesn't change, there can be issues with retrieving an out of date copy of repository information from the cache, and packages can be large, and they'll eat into your available space for cached…

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