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Here's a screencast to guide you through the steps involved in installing our latest Aegir release, 0.4 alpha5 on a fresh Debian Lenny virtual server with no other prior configurations.

Warning: this is a very boring screencast, for two reasons:

1) You really can follow the instructions / copy and paste the commands from the INSTALL.txt with barely any changes required. Seriously. That's what I did.

2) I sound exactly like a zombie doing his tax return. Hey, it's 1am.

Many Aegir users ask whether there is a way to schedule backups of all sites provisioned in Aegir. Currently at the time of writing, no such scheduling exists within Aegir itself, since we have a few design decisions to work out (such as where to store the backups, especially when multi-server comes in!)

For the meantime, here's a crude little shell script that might help you. You should execute it as the aegir user.

I did a screencast on how you can use Drush Make to generate 'builds' based on Drupal core, with optional components such as install profiles + module/theme/library dependencies. The example given is the Managing News news aggregation system.

I then show how you can add the build as a Platform in Aegir, and rapidly provision sites on it in a multisite structure.

Shameless 'retweet' of Adrian's article announcing Aegir's move from CVS to Git for our development.

Those of you who have been cloning from my git repos at git.mig5.net, may now wish to clone from the officially-supported git repos at git.aegirproject.org. The Issue queues for reporting bugs will for the time being remain at d.o.

After noticing that in the community, some people are seeking a central community 'hub' Feature Server via which to upload and share their Features, I bought featureservers.org and set up http://community.featureservers.org to do exactly that.