Pull portage snapshot from a local computer?

[D-LINC]

Hi. I have a small network with a PC and a server. Currently, come update time, both systems get the tree with "eix-sync -w". To save on bandwidth, is there a quick and easy way I can have the PC get (and use) the snapshot from the server once the server has already downloaded it? The PC already has key-based scp access into said server.
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[mv]

How about using the -s option of eix-sync?
Or you can use squashfs+aufs and just update the squashfs file from the server.

[Trog Dog]

Check out these links http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/rsync.xml and http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-173226.html - not sure if they work with eix - but they certainly work with normal emerge --sync. I've got 6 boxes that use this setup, 1 is the main server and the remaining 5 "feed" off of it.
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[i92guboj]

I've used nfs with some success in the past to share the portage directory across all my home computers, that way I only needed a single copy of portage in my server. nfs has it's own assortment of problems, though.
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[Naib]

I would go with rsync.

I have one box that emerge --sync from the gentoo mirrors. My other boxes then end up syncing from 192.168.0.2
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[XavierMiller]

Hello,

I used first rsync, but when I discovered using a squashed portage tree makes portage REALLY FAST, I sync from the "master" onto a temporary folder, then squash all the portage tree, then replicate the squashed archive (about 80 Mo with XZ compression).
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[padoor]

if it is an always on computer why not mount the portage of the computer in your system by usb connection?
it will save a 3 Gb space also in your system and other computers if it is done so
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[cwr]

Or export the original portage directory with SMBFS - that's what I sometimes do.

Wil

[drescherjm]

I have been using the rsync mirror method at home and at work for 6+ years. It works very well. Easy to install. And no problems ever.
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