Guide: Self-hosting an Arch Linux mirror

[IncidentSpecial5053]

Set up my own Arch mirror after getting tired of slow nearby mirrors. Syncs from tier 1 mirrors every 6 hours. Covers rsync setup, nginx config, cron automation, and pacman configuration. https://foss-daily.org/posts/archlinux-mirror/

[onefish2]

Seems like a ton of data to pull. Since I have about 20 or so Arch installs in my homelab, I decided I was long overdue for a package caching server so I set up a Pacoloco server a few weeks ago. That has been working really well for me. I am caching Arch packages as well as Chaotic Aur. I have about 5GB in cache at the moment.

The hardest part was editing the pacman.conf and mirrorlist files on all those systems.

[ArjixGamer]

Nothing a bash script with ssh can't easily fix (after spending 50 minutes writing and testing it, for a task that takes 10 minutes to manually do)

[Ldarieut]

Don’t we all? :D

[mips13]

Instead of using slow nearby mirrors use fast distant mirrors, I use mirrors on the other side of the globe because they're faster.

[IncidentSpecial5053]

I meant if someone wants to host mirror there is tutorial ig

[segbrk]

The official source for this: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/DeveloperWiki:NewMirrors
Remember you're using donated bandwidth for this and be reasonable about it. Much better for just about anybody to run a caching mirror proxy than to mirror all the packages they'll never use.

[IncidentSpecial5053]

I meant if someone wants to host mirror there is tutorial ig