It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/LinuxIsFree on 2024-07-31 00:03:51.

I thought I found a good answer online but I cant find the page anymore.

I want to have an offline copy of all the packages in apt-get for ubuntu or debian so I can set up servers and software without internet access. Certainly for amd64, but ideally for arm64 as well.

I cant find a clear answer on if apt-mirror does that, or of it's the installation images for Ubuntu.

I need to know what size disk Im looking at needing, and I need to know what commands to use.

I have a ton of small 256gb SSDs, would it be possible to maybe split it alphabetically across some SSDs so I can just plug it into a system and install it from there?

Sorry if this is a stupid question, I just dont understand the answers Im finding