multiple mirrors downloading

[Zenaan Harkness <zen at getsystems dot com>]

I want to have a mirror archive on my laptop, and keep it up to date, so
I can update the three ops PCs I have at work from my local mirror, and
to simplify keeping them all in sync wrt versions.

My first attempt sits like this:
On my workstation (Debian GNU/Linux) I created a samba share and used
the cywin download tool to download to disk, to my samba share. This was
fine, except a few days later when I went to update the local
repository, the mirror I had been using had stopped working - so I went
back again and used a different mirror.

The problem: Looking at my local repository directory, it appears that
there is a funky looking "mirror-name-with-percent-signs-etc" top level
directory FOR EACH MIRROR. So I quickly stopped the second download/
update, assuming it would go and redownload the entire archive.

If my assumption that it would redownload everything is correct, this is
a ridiculous waste of bandwidth, and unacceptable.

So, where do I go from here?

TIA
Zenaan


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