Mass MacBook restores can overload a small Mac server setup
A large Mac restore job needs to erase and reinstall a few hundred Intel MacBook Pros from 2017 to 2020. The current setup uses Two Canoes MDS to create a with the macOS , puts that image on a , and mounts it from each MacBook before running the .
The is the built-in Apache server on macOS. The problem is that this is , so the server sends a separate copy of the same data to every MacBook.
For restoring many rs at once, multicast may be better because it can send the same data to many machines at the same time. The needed missing piece is a tool that can mount a in using multicast.
Key points
- The job involves erasing and reinstalling a few hundred Intel MacBook Pros from 2017 to 2020.
- The current uses MDS to make a macOS .
- The image is hosted through the built-in Apache on macOS.
- Apache serves the image by , which sends separate copies to each MacBook.
- The desired setup would mount the in through multicast.