CTAN mirror size

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What is the current (2017) approximate (+/- 50Gb is adequate precision) size of the CTAN mirror ?

I cannot find this information online, the only way to calculate it myself seems to rsync, but this is exactly what I want to know before committing to it. Michael Doob' Mirroring CTAN article from year 2001 is obviously outdated, it states that the mirror takes 5Gb, which is clearly no longer true because TeXLive DVD is there.

Update: 32Gb, apparently.

Welcome to TeX.SX! +/- 50 GB? Probably 5 Gb is correct then. — TeXnician, Apr 20 '17 at 10:37
The page http://ctan.org/ctan/ says "You will need about 50 Gb of hard disk space" to be a mirror. — Ulrike Fischer, Apr 20 '17 at 10:44
If I remember well, if you run rsync with -n option it does nothing, but gives you the result with the size. — CarLaTeX, Apr 20 '17 at 12:37
I remembered well: if you run rsync with -n option (--dry-run), it doesn't do any file transfers, instead it will just report the actions it would have taken. See here: https://ss64.com/bash/rsync_options.html — CarLaTeX, Apr 20 '17 at 12:51
So, given the criterion of +/- 50 Gb, the size of a CTAN mirror is 0b. — , Apr 20 '17 at 14:43
Gb = gigabits or gigabytes? The usual convention is B for bytes and b for bits. — JAB, Apr 20 '17 at 14:46
Did you read my answer about Establishing a new LaTeX repository in the university? — Paul Gaborit, Apr 20 '17 at 15:37

score 12 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 20 '17 at 12:44

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Ulrike already has quoted the official page on CTAN.

In addition I can say that currently 34Gb of the requested 50Gb are effectively used. This leaves some room for growth.

answered Apr 20 '17 at 12:44

Gerd Neugebauer

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