Hallo, HillTopsGM, Du meintest am 04.09.13: [wsusoffline] > Thanks for this tip - I know you have mentioned it before, but what I > am trying to avoid is on an on going basis (every week) when there is > an update, having all 12 computers download the same file. > This is a great tool if you are always doing fresh installs - that's > fine - but it doesn't help me day to day. But surely it helps! It's a data base for all desired windows versions, it's completed/refreshed every time you want. > The other thing is that it doesn't look like the tool is updated as > frequently as windows updates come out - in other words, it doesn't > appear to incrementally update itself. Updateing is a cron job. Only not yet existing files are downloaded during such a job, and they stay in the directory as long as Windows looks for them - that's another way than staying in the squid cache. > Am I correct in assuming this? No. Just take a try, for about some weeks. Microsoft has a fixed patch day. > This is why I'd really prefer to have the proxy work properly - just > set it up and forget it. That's the dream. The squid cache deletes old files, because it's a cache. By the way: my wsusoffline directory contains actually the updates for Windows XP (32 bit), Windows 7 (32 bit and 64 bit), that's nearly 7 Gbyte. I wouldn't fill a cache with so much nearly static files. Viele Gruesse! Helmut
