On Feb 12, 2009, at 11:02 AM, Dan Brown wrote:
I have about 30 Mac OS X (10.3, 10.4, 10.5) computers/servers I am installing Amanda on but I am finding that the process of installation (for which I've scripted so there's not a whole lot I have to do), will take up to three hours on a slower machine because of the need to install Xcode, MacPorts, and Amanda. The biggest time consumer happens to be the installation of Xcode and Macports. While I am sure there are some libraries needed, has anyone created (or have some tips on) a completely static, fully bundled libraries version of amanda which could be installed within 20-30 minutes rather than 2-3 hours?
I've not done this with Amanda per se, but I've done it with other software, so I think it should work with Amanda.
Assuming you have the MacPorts libraries needed by Amanda (mainly glib2) already installed in /opt/local, you could tar this directory up and push it to your clients and unpack it remotely. We use Apple Remote Desktop to do such tasks. (ARD obviates the need to set up SSH keys, so it's a faster setup, although costlier.)
Jose
