jasondkrueger

Q: How to upgrade 10.6.8 server to 10.8.2 server

I have been scouring the internet looking for "Best Pratices" for upgrading my mini server from 10.6.8 to 10.8.2 to no avail. I'm hoping for a small amount of hand holding, a little reassurance.

 

I have a 2.53 GHz Mini Server, with the 500 GB drives raided to mirror.

I am running a very simple set up where we are really only using AFP/DNS/Open Directory/SMB, Basically a means of managing authentication to our files.

 

I would like to upgrade the system to 10.8.2 to gain the versioning support in ML.

 

Can anyone help me avoid obvious mistakes/pitfalls. My current plan:

 

1. Validate my backups

2. Download 10.8 via the app store

3. Install it.

4. Move on....

 

Do I have to reinstall server.app?

Will the upgrade dump all of my settings etc.?

Will I have to re-setup the server?

 

Thanks for your help.

Mac mini, OS X Server

Posted on Feb 20, 2013 3:31 PM

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Q: How to upgrade 10.6.8 server to 10.8.2 server

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  • by Peter-Erik,

    Peter-Erik Peter-Erik Feb 21, 2013 1:33 AM in response to jasondkrueger
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    Feb 21, 2013 1:33 AM in response to jasondkrueger

    Did you find this document ?

     

    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5381?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US

     

    My plan

     

    1) copy (all) data from server to external disk

    2) boot from this disk (external)

    3) migrate to ML

    4) check everything

    5) problems? boot from original disk

  • by Kathy Devlin,Solvedanswer

    Kathy Devlin Kathy Devlin Feb 21, 2013 5:18 PM in response to jasondkrueger
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    Feb 21, 2013 5:18 PM in response to jasondkrueger

    Here's what we did in a recent upgrade from server 10.6.8 to 10.8 on our Xserves:

     

    Imaged the existing servers, just in case

    Backed up all services, archived Open Directory, exported all users & groups

    Downloaded & installed 10.8 (it sounds like you have one server, but if you have any replicas, do this on the master first)

    Downloaded & installed server.app

    Installed all updates

    All services appeared to be running with all previous settings intact, but...

     

    We ran into a pretty serious problem with file sharing -- With any luck, you won't need this info, but my notes are below just in case. Hope this is helpful info.

     

    Open directory Master -- All services seem OK.

    Open directory Replica:

    SMB shares wouldn't mount on either Macs or PCs (authentication errors)

    AFP shares initially seemed OK, but we quickly discovered that the service was limited to 10 connections. Users beyond 10 who tried to connect would get an error that the server had reached its max number of connections.

     

    What we tried that didn't work:

    Rebooting the server (multiple times) both with the service turned on and off, disabling SMB sharing on all shares and then reenabling it, modifying the maxConnections key in /Library/Preferences/com.apple.AppleFileServer.plist -- it was set to 10, we reset it to 1000 and restarted. This *might* have worked for AFP, but SMB still wasn't working, and we should have had unlimited connections.

     

     

    Called AppleCare -- the rep advised us to force the server to re-set up the services. To do that...

    - Open Server.app, turn off all running services, and quit Server.app.

    - Throw Server.app in the trash. Do not empty trash. You'll see a message that Server.app has been moved, or something to that effect.

    - Move Server.app back to /Applications

    - Open Server.app and it should walk you through the setup as though it was a new server.

    - Restart necessary services

     

    This seemed to fix the problem. The AFP plist was completely overwritten -- the new version was binary. All AFP users are now able to connect, and SMB shares are working as well.

  • by jasondkrueger,

    jasondkrueger jasondkrueger Feb 6, 2014 10:27 AM in response to Kathy Devlin
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    Feb 6, 2014 10:27 AM in response to Kathy Devlin

    Sorry for the huge delay in responding to this.

     

    These last comments are very helpful. I appreciate it!

  • by jasondkrueger,

    jasondkrueger jasondkrueger Feb 6, 2014 10:30 AM in response to jasondkrueger
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    Feb 6, 2014 10:30 AM in response to jasondkrueger

    I would like to upgrade the system to 10.8.2 to gain the versioning support in ML.

     

    This is not possible in ML, BTW,

     

    cross fingers for Mavericks, I still havent upgraded to that yet. Too much disapointment about expected features that aren't there.