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Using Mirror and Linked
Repositories
In
“Running the Management Console (initial use)” on page 36
, you created
the master repository (“the Repository”). A large installation might need
several repositories. This chapter explains mirror repositories and linked
repositories.
Each time you receive a new version of the anti-virus software, you can add
the software to the Repository and select the newly installed version as the
current version of anti-virus components. The Update Manager then copies
the new files from the Repository to the member machines.
Creating mirror repositories
If you have two anti-virus domains separated by a WAN link, copying the new
files to each member machine over the WAN link is slow and expensive.
By copying the new files from the master repository to a mirror repository on
the remote site, you copy the new files across the WAN link only once. Then,
when the member machines on the remote site update themselves, they access
their local mirror repository, without using the WAN link (see
Figure 8-1 on
page 214
). For more details, see
“Reducing WAN traffic” on page 235
.