Does the Open Directory Export in Lion Server Admin App include LDAP information?

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Does the Open Directory Export in Lion Server Admin App include LDAP information?

I'm getting ready to migrate our company server to a new server box. I'm doing a complete clean install, and migrating specific information over (we had some corruptions from the initial installation Lion Server). All our users are in LDAP, not the Local directory, and I can't seem to figure out (and don't have the ability to test) if using the Ser Admin app's Archive feature of Open Directory, will include all LDAP information. My understanding is that if I create an archive and restore to it, then all of my users and there information will be put back like nothing happen, but can't get any clarification on it. Thanks!

Macbook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.2)

Posted on Apr 20, 2012 9:47 AM

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Jonathan Melville

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Apr 20, 2012 10:22 AM in response to woz.was

Yep that's how it works. It restores your LDAP database, Password Server and Kerberos realm.

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Apr 20, 2012 10:30 AM in response to Jonathan Melville

And that includes their email contacts and calendars as well?

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Apr 20, 2012 10:34 AM in response to woz.was

No. Contacts and calendars aren't stored an in LDAP database. LDAP is only users, machines (and other things like printers, user groups...).

CalDAV and CardDAV data is stored in a PostgreSQL database called 'caldav'. You will need to dump your database and then restore it on your new server.

You might find this article useful: http://krypted.com/mac-os-x-server/nukepave-ical-server-in-lion-server/

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woz.was Author

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Apr 20, 2012 10:44 AM in response to Jonathan Melville

That does help thanks. So that takes care of user information and setup, as well as iCal. Do you know if there's a similar method for restoring email and contacts? My plan was to simply move over the mail folders, and since the GUID is the same, it should reconnect them after I restore my Open Directory file.

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Apr 20, 2012 10:46 AM in response to woz.was

It should. I would test it in a virtual machine. You can virtualize Lion Server and client and test tearing things down and restoring them. I use VMWare and it works great.

I can confim that the instructions for tearing down and rebuilding caldav work properly because I tested it in a VM.

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woz.was Author

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Apr 20, 2012 10:57 AM in response to Jonathan Melville

Do you mind sharing what arguments you used with pg_restore to reimport the database dump?

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Apr 20, 2012 11:37 AM in response to woz.was

Sure, here's exactly what you do. These instructions assume that you have a backup of your caldav database sitting on your desktop, and it's called 'caldav.sql'. If you have it in a different place then update your file path appropriately. All of the commands below assume sudo.

1. First, stop services that use the caldav database.

serveradmin stop calendar

serveradmin stop addressbook

2. Drop the caldav database from PostgreSQL

dropdb -U _postgres caldav

3. Recreate the the caldav database

calendarserver_bootstrap_database -v

4. Restore the database from your backup

psql -U _postgres -d caldav -f ~/Desktop/caldav.sql

5. restart services

serveradmin start calendar

serveradmin start addressbook

6. ???

7. Profit!

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woz.was Author

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Apr 20, 2012 11:45 AM in response to Jonathan Melville

That's awesome man, thanks so much. So if I do do the same steps using carddav as well as caldav, it should take care of my contacts as well?

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Apr 20, 2012 11:47 AM in response to woz.was

cardav data is stored in the same database as caldav.

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woz.was Author

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Apr 20, 2012 11:48 AM in response to woz.was

Fantatstic, can't thank you enough for your help.

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