Android full mirror download size

[Vincent Victor]

I am creating a local Android full mirror using commands mentioned on official Android website as follows:

mkdir -p /usr/local/aosp/mirror
cd /usr/local/aosp/mirror
repo init -u https://android.googlesource.com/mirror/manifest --mirror
repo sync

It already downloaded 173GB and still going on. Do we have any idea that how much will be the final size? Am I doing anything wrong here?

[Glenn Kasten]

According to section Hardware Requirements of

https://source.android.com/setup/build/requirements

only 100 gig is needed.  So either that doc is wrong,

or your download has gone wild.  Please post here if it finishes,

and if so what the actual size is. 

[Vincent Victor]

Download was ongoing till 238 GB and then I killed it. Could not afford to keep it continue. One more thing, I was downloading in home folder instead of /usr/local/, could this be the problem?

[Colin Cross]

Mirrors are much bigger than a normal checkout, at least a few hundred GB.

--
--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the "Android Building" mailing list.
To post to this group, send email to android-...@googlegroups.com
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to
android-buildi...@googlegroups.com
For more options, visit this group at
http://groups.google.com/group/android-building?hl=en

---
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Building" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to android-buildi...@googlegroups.com.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

[Glenn Kasten]

Thanks, I'll let our doc team know so they can mention it.

On Monday, October 22, 2018 at 11:37:22 AM UTC-7, Colin Cross wrote:

Mirrors are much bigger than a normal checkout, at least a few hundred GB.

On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 7:17 AM Vincent Victor <vkvict...@gmail.com> wrote:

Download was ongoing till 238 GB and then I killed it. Could not afford to keep it continue. One more thing, I was downloading in home folder instead of /usr/local/, could this be the problem?

On Saturday, 20 October 2018 08:12:27 UTC+5:30, Glenn Kasten wrote:

According to section Hardware Requirements of

https://source.android.com/setup/build/requirements

only 100 gig is needed.  So either that doc is wrong,

or your download has gone wild.  Please post here if it finishes,

and if so what the actual size is. 

On Friday, October 19, 2018 at 8:18:59 AM UTC-7, Vincent Victor wrote:

I am creating a local Android full mirror using commands mentioned on official Android website as follows:

mkdir -p /usr/local/aosp/mirror
cd /usr/local/aosp/mirror
repo init -u https://android.googlesource.com/mirror/manifest --mirror
repo sync

It already downloaded 173GB and still going on. Do we have any idea that how much will be the final size? Am I doing anything wrong here?

--
--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the "Android Building" mailing list.

To post to this group, send email to android-building@googlegroups.com

To unsubscribe from this group, send email to

android-building+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com

For more options, visit this group at
http://groups.google.com/group/android-building?hl=en

---
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Building" group.

To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to android-building+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com.

[Jean-Baptiste Queru]

I confirm.

Full AOSP mirrors contain all git repositories that have ever been used. That includes repositories that contain a lot of binaries, such as kernels for older devices, or older toolchains. As a result, full mirrors are much heavier to download than single versions.

JBQ

--

Jean-Baptiste M. "JBQ" Quéru

Distinguished Architect, Oath

Lead Mobile Architect

Architect, Mobile Platforms

Co-chair, Senior Tech Council

j...@oath.com

"Users Come First"

[andrew_esh]

I maintain a full mirror on a volume that I recently had to upsize to 250G, and I just found out that that size is not enough. I'll have to upsize it again to finish my sync.

[Vincent Victor]

Do we have any way using which only mirror for master branch could be maintained and used for syncing clients?

[Colin Cross]

Use repo init -u https://android.googlesource.com/platform/manifest -b master --mirror to only sync projects that are in the master manifest.

--

[Vincent Victor]

Hi Colin, 

So instead of "mirror" in path "platform" needs to be used, right?

Further, what is use of "-b master" flag. Official website says, "To check out a branch other than "master", specify it with -b." This means "-b master" should not be required for master branch.

Please help me with these two confusions! Thanks!

[Glenn Kasten]

Documentation has been updated, see the blue note:

https://source.android.com/setup/build/requirements#hardware-requirements

It still does not give the exact requirement, but at least it now warns you that you need more.

Thanks again for reporting this!

[andrew_esh]

I finished my update to android-9.0.0-r12. Here are the sizes:

Cleaned sandbox: 82686588

Full Mirror: 257690272

My mirror volume is up to 300G now. It might last until Q is out.