[CentOS-mirror] Partially sync vault.centos.org/5.11/

[Olivia Nelson]

Thanks Anssi, archive.kernel.org is so much faster -:)

Anyway, I'm not using CentOS 5 on production, only as a glibc 2.5
build environment in docker, nothing to worry about

On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 1:04 AM, Anssi Johansson <avij at centosproject.org> wrote:
> Olivia Nelson kirjoitti 22.4.2018 klo 17.40:
>>
>> Hi there
>>
>> I'm trying to create a partial mirror of vault.centos.org, aka
>> http://vault.centos.org/5.11
>>
>> Since I only need the binary RPMS, does anyone know how much disk
>> space is required to save the whole folder?
>
>
> I'm sure you are already aware that CentOS 5 went EOL a year ago, and
> stopped receiving any updates at that point. Therefore using CentOS 5 for
> anything is a security risk.
>
> That said, I made a copy of the 5.11 files before they vanished from
> mirror.centos.org (for no particular reason apart from preserving history, I
> haven't had a CentOS 5 system anywhere for years), and here are some disk
> usage stats:
>
> $ du -sh */i386
> 32K     addons/i386
> 1.5G    centosplus/i386
> 32K     contrib/i386
> 32K     cr/i386
> 129M    extras/i386
> 32K     fasttrack/i386
> 9.1G    isos/i386
> 4.6G    os/i386
> 8.4G    updates/i386
>
> $ du -sh */x86_64
> 32K     addons/x86_64
> 1.1G    centosplus/x86_64
> 32K     contrib/x86_64
> 32K     cr/x86_64
> 140M    extras/x86_64
> 32K     fasttrack/x86_64
> 11G     isos/x86_64
> 5.3G    os/x86_64
> 11G     updates/x86_64
>
> $ du -sh 5.11
> 50G     5.11
>
> If you use rsync to get the files, using the -H flag (preserve hard links)
> saves a few bits because some files in i386 and x86_64 are the same. Some
> rsync servers for vault are listed on
> http://vault.centos.org/notonvault.html
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