[arch-general] Rollback to specific date works fine -- but really slow download

[David C. Rankin]

On 5/13/22 8:15 AM, Mikau via arch-general wrote:
>>   The rollback worked flawlessly, but is there anything that can be
>> done to help the download rate? Due to the ICU 7.0->7.1 update, there
>> were 368 packages in 1.3GiB to download. At 300->500KiB it took
>> forever.
> 
> Have you tried using the mirrors
> (https://{europe,asia,america}.archive.pkgbuild.com)? They all seem to
> have varying speeds.
> 

No, in this case it was just archive.archlinux.org. I'm crossing my fingers
that, other than this samba bug, I shouldn't need to do it again.

I just wanted to confirm that the 300-500KiB I was getting in download was
normal or if I had missed something on the wiki page. Even if slow, the
archive is invaluable for circumstances just like this, and I can understand
why limiting the download may help create a balance for the use of the archive.

So if there wasn't anything I missed, and 300-500KiB is about what you would
expect from archive.archlinux.org, then all is well.

Thank you for the mirror note. If I ever have to use this again, I'll try a
mirror and see if the rate improves. Otherwise, I was able to get the level 10
debugs and tcpdump traces for the samba bug after the rollback completed.

-- 
David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.