Software Update Server deletes at will

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Software Update Server deletes at will

Well, this is fun! In addition to the screwball problems already mentioned here, I'm having a fantastic time w/ my SUS...NOT. After downloading about 1GB worth of the items I've asked it to Copy/Enable, it just decides, seemingly on its own, to delete all of the contents of "content/download", and start over. It's done this 3 times now. So, it takes hours and hours to download all this stuff, then SUS summarily deletes it. I was really hoping that w/ the 10.5 upgrade, they'd have improved SUS significantly (there was plenty of room for it). Doesn't look like that's the case...

BTW, this has happened on both 10.5 and 10.5.1.

PowerBook G4/1.67GHz, Mac OS X (10.4.11)

Posted on Nov 16, 2007 10:27 AM

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Fred Turner Author

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Nov 16, 2007 11:57 AM in response to Fred Turner

Oh, yeah...even if I completely delete everything in the HTML folder, whatever SUS thinks it has already "Copied", it won't turn loose of. I keep trying to disable all but a couple of updates in Server Admin to keep it from downloading another 1GB, deleting, then rinsing and repeating, but it won't work. After a bit, they've all been re-enabled, and their Copied status never changes from the green dot. I wonder if anybody at Apple actually tested this stuff before greenlighting...

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Nov 17, 2007 11:12 AM in response to Fred Turner

One thing is for certain: Nobody tested it on a server with less than a T1 connection to the internet. I assume that with a T1 you could download the entire updater set in less than an hour.

I don't yet know just how long it takes my server to download the full set (although I really only want a few of the updaters!), because after about 14 hours it hits an error and then deletes everything and starts all over!

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Nov 18, 2007 12:00 PM in response to Fred Turner

Well, I guess I know how long it takes now: approximately 18 hours 35 minutes. It finally finished. But then it immediately started up again and deleted everything and started over, so I'm still no better than I was before.

I just shut the darned thing off. I'll do without it, because it just ain't worth it to see 18 hours from now if it will finally decide to stop downloading and go into normal operation.

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Fred Turner Author

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Nov 20, 2007 11:48 AM in response to Stockman60

Just had a thought... Do you think this could be related to a malfunction of the mechanism behind the +"Purge unused/legacy software update packages automatically"+ checkbox? I'm going to test this w/ a very small selection of "Copied" updates...not the full suite...that'd take too long to find out whether SUS is gonna screw me again. Anyway, if any of you have any ideas about this, please weigh in!

Thanks,
Fred

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Jan 28, 2008 9:05 AM in response to Fred Turner

I am having a similar problem. Not only is SUS downloading the updates over and over again... i have stopped the service and restarted the server... only to have it download almost two gigs of stuff anyway. Wow...

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Jim Bob

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Feb 12, 2008 9:56 AM in response to Stockman60

You have an rosy view of a T1, it takes roughly 1.5 hours to download 1GB of data - there are at least two updates in excess of 1GB in size.

Maybe you were thinking of a T3? 😉

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Jim Bob

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Feb 12, 2008 10:11 AM in response to MacAdminAz

I got to 6.4GB before ditching the service. I had set it to copy nothing!

I even went as far to edit the plist file and restart the service as that still had "copy newer" set to <true/> when the copy tick box was unticked.

Looks like the marketing droids got to overrule the coders with this product.
Looks great, does nothing 😉, well nothing right anyway...

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Feb 13, 2008 11:05 AM in response to Fred Turner

This issue is supposed to be fixed in Leopard Server 10.5.2. Anyone tried it yet?

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