Command line equivalent of Work Group Manager's export feature

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Command line equivalent of Work Group Manager's export feature

Hello everyone,

I am have a hard time upgrading from Lion Server to Mountain Lion Server, especially with Open Directory. What I wish to do, is to import the existing users and groups of an existing server running Lion Server into a new (fresh) Open Directory master created on another server that is running Mountain Lion Server.

I have tried several options. Those that did *not* work for me include:

Trying to make create a replica of the Lion Open Directory on the Mountain Lion Server
Trying to backup the OD of the Lion Server using slapconfig

What seems to work (for the moment), is to use the export feature of Work Group manager on Lion and to import the users/groups using the import feature of Mountain Lion Server app.

My question is: is there a command line way to do the export ? Since Work Group manager seems to be kind of deprecated in ML, I assume there must be some other way (i.e., from the command line) to do the user/group import and export.

Thanks for your help !

OS X Server, Mountain Lion Server

Posted on Sep 5, 2012 5:01 AM

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Mark23

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Sep 5, 2012 5:39 AM in response to elgringito

There is no need for using the command line, just download Workgroup Manager 10.8:

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elgringito Author

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Sep 5, 2012 5:51 AM in response to Mark23

Thanks Mark23 for your answer. Actually, I knew I can download Workgroup Manager 10.8. But it seems that Workgroup Manager isn't going to be maintained in the future : http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5308.

So my question still remains. Is there a command line equivalent ?

Thanks !

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Mark23

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Sep 5, 2012 5:58 AM in response to elgringito

Look here: http://help.apple.com/advancedserveradmin/mac/10.8/#apd85EF3879-DB6B-483F-873F-5 796ACC9E424

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elgringito Author

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Sep 5, 2012 6:24 AM in response to Mark23

Hey ! You are right, the answer is there :

http://help.apple.com/advancedserveradmin/mac/10.8/#apd45e62480-b590-4223-86de-3 5407a78c411

The command I was looking for is dsexport.

Thank you very much for this helpful pointer.

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NA_Joey

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Nov 9, 2012 2:32 PM in response to elgringito

There is an opendirectorybackup script at:

/Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/usr/libexec/server_backup/opendirec torybackup.

It will save an OD archive using slapconfig in /var/backups. I am not sure if this is supposed to run automatically with Time Machine, but if you manually load this launchd job, it will run daily:

/Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.ap ple.opendirectorybackup.plist.

The OD archive in /var/backups is only accessible by root, but it will not require a password.

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NA_Joey

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Nov 9, 2012 2:37 PM in response to elgringito

Notice that the old Archive and Restore options are gone. To run a backup, run the slapconfig command along with the -backupdb option followed by a path to a folder to back the data up to:

sudo slapconfig -backupdb /odbackups
To restore a database (such as from a previous version of the operating system where such an important option was actually present) use the following command (which just swaps backupdb with -restoredb)

sudo slapconfig -restoredb /odbackups
/usr/sbin/ServerBackup -cmd backup -source /

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Apr 22, 2013 11:32 AM in response to elgringito

"

Thanks Mark23 for your answer. Actually, I knew I can download Workgroup Manager 10.8. But it seems that Workgroup Manager isn't going to be maintained in the future :http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5308.

So my question still remains. Is there a command line equivalent ?

Thanks !"

this was my solution,

i like to keep myself away from terminal 🙂

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