Thanks again Amos for the reply. I am not sure what you ment by: > This > encourages caching for the peak load period and lets later clients get > the slower MISS. What is 'MISS'? I'd like to cache the updates for at least a year. My example of 3-4 years was a bit exaggerated. Basically if I have to do a reinstall, several months down the road, I simply don't want to have to redownload everything again - period; especially if it can sit nicely in my proxy somewhere. If I allow the proxy to cache other stuff, I just want to make sure the at updates are not overwritten - if at all possible. -- View this message in context: http://squid-web-proxy-cache.1019090.n4.nabble.com/refresh-pattern-AND-reload-into-ims-tp4661704p4661724.html Sent from the Squid - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.