Prior to the server mobo dieing I had been using apt-cacher-ng to minimize internet traffic. The setup worked well since both my EEE and my server were running i386 packages from the testing distribution.
With the new mobo in the server, all the packages are amd64 based packages. Thus, I’m not really gaining any advantages with apt-cacher since different packages are going to the two computers. So I’m trying out the apt-mirror package since it can be configured to download packages for different architectures.
Since it’s a mirror as opposed to a caching application, it’s downloading all of the packages related to testing for both i386 and amd64. I started it about 5:15PM. The download size is ~65GB. It’s still downloading.
More later… once this step is complete.