Questions about making a local repo mirror

[facedesk]

The (somewhat outdated) guide I've been using: https://tuxtrix.com/setup-local-reposit ... mint-18-x/

Got a few questions. Are there any issues with killing apt-mirror and resuming it later? Asking as I have a slowish connection and thus it easily saturates my connection for quite some time (will take a little under 24 hours to download 200GB+)
I've been getting this error when running apt-mirror:

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Processing indexes: [Papt-mirror: can't open index packages.linuxmint.com//dists/uma/#id:linuxmint_main/binary-amd64/Packages in process_index at /usr/bin/apt-mirror line 800.
PPPPP]

I altered the mirror.list file below as the default ones didn't work

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clean http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu
deb http://packages.linuxmint.com uma main upstream import backport #id:linuxmint_main

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-backports main restricted universe multiverse

deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ focal-security main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ focal partner

[facedesk]

Other than that error I get, things seem to be going well, but won't know till it's finished and can test it.

Perhaps the line below needs to be altered to fix that error:

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deb http://packages.linuxmint.com uma main upstream import backport #id:linuxmint_main

[facedesk]

It finished early this morning with these messages:

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0 bytes in 0 files and 0 directories can be freed.
Run /media/desktop/backup3/repo/var/clean.sh for this purpose.

Running the Post Mirror script ...
(/media/desktop/backup3/repo/var/postmirror.sh)

/bin/sh: 0: Can't open /media/desktop/backup3/repo/var/postmirror.sh

Post Mirror script has completed. See above output for any possible errors.

Thing is, all the clean.sh script has in it is this:

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#!/bin/sh
set -e

cd '/media/desktop/backup3/repo/mirror'

echo 'Removing 0 unnecessary files [0 bytes]...'
echo 'done.'
echo

echo 'Removing 0 unnecessary directories...'
echo 'done.'
echo

Perhaps the script gets modified by apt-mirror as needed, not sure.

postmirror.sh doesn't exist in the var directory.

Not sure if either is really an issue at all. Will try to test out the mirror soon.

[facedesk]

Well, that failed miserably. I tried it out and got a list of missing files:

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N: Download is performed unsandboxed as root as file '/media/nick/backup3/repo_mint/mirror/packages.linuxmint.com/dists/uma/InRelease' couldn't be accessed by user '_apt'. - pkgAcquire::Run (13: Permission denied)
E: Failed to fetch file:/media/nick/backup3/repo_mint/mirror/archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/focal/main/cnf/Commands-amd64  File not found - /media/nick/backup3/repo_mint/mirror/archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/focal/main/cnf/Commands-amd64 (2: No such file or directory)
E: Failed to fetch file:/media/nick/backup3/repo_mint/mirror/archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/focal-updates/main/cnf/Commands-amd64  File not found - /media/nick/backup3/repo_mint/mirror/archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/focal-updates/main/cnf/Commands-amd64 (2: No such file or directory)
E: Failed to fetch file:/media/nick/backup3/repo_mint/mirror/archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/focal-backports/main/cnf/Commands-amd64  File not found - /media/nick/backup3/repo_mint/mirror/archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/focal-backports/main/cnf/Commands-amd64 (2: No such file or directory)
E: Failed to fetch file:/media/nick/backup3/repo_mint/mirror/security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/focal-security/main/cnf/Commands-amd64  File not found - /media/nick/backup3/repo_mint/mirror/security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/focal-security/main/cnf/Commands-amd64 (2: No such file or directory)
E: Failed to fetch file:/media/nick/backup3/repo_mint/mirror/archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/dists/focal/partner/i18n/Translation-en  File not found - /media/nick/backup3/repo_mint/mirror/archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/dists/focal/partner/i18n/Translation-en (2: No such file or directory)
E: Failed to fetch file:/media/nick/backup3/repo_mint/mirror/packages.linuxmint.com/dists/uma/main/binary-i386/Packages  File not found - /media/nick/backup3/repo_mint/mirror/packages.linuxmint.com/dists/uma/main/binary-i386/Packages (2: No such file or directory)
E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

looks like I might need modify my mirror.list file. EDIT:Looks like the issues lie with apt-mirror not being maintained, going to try the fork of it suggested on another site.

[facedesk]

The patched apt-mirror downloaded the files, but I'm still getting the same errors.