2. Is there an alternative method for mirroring the archive repository?
Hi!
rsync access is not available.
The debmirror should work I think. From a quick look it looks like it requires both Release and InRelease files in the repo, and there are only InRelease files in the archive (unlike the non-archive repos). Christoph, can you enlighten us on if that's likely the issue, and if there's a reason it's not there in the archives?