Ashley Aitken

Q: Clean install OSX+S 10.9 then migrate data from 10.6 Server?

Howdy All,

 

I've had OSX Server from the first release but stopped at Snow Leopard Server waiting for the "new server" to mature a bit.  I think it is time now to move to OSX Server 10.9 but also for a clean install to clear out the crud that has collected over all these years. 

 

I have two main partitions: one for the OS with the Mail store and Wikis and another for user home directories and other files.  Again this is going from Snow Leopard Server 10.6.last to 10.9 Mavericks and then Mavericks Server

 

My question is:  If I clean install Maverick and then Mavericks server on another partition will I be able to migrate data and services over manually? 

 

Of course, I will need to setup users and directory services again from scratch (but that is part of the plan to clean out the unused stuff that has collected over the years).  I don't mind setting up fileshares, Web sites, DNS, and similar again.

 

However, when this is done will I be able to copy the mail store (i.e. all users email) over and will it be detected, updated if needed, and work?  Similarly, when I copy over the wikis, will they be detected, updated if needed, and work?

 

Further, when I setup the symbolic links for home directories again (onto the other partition), will the home directories be updated (if needed) and work?  I'm not sure what could have changed with regards to home directories but you never know.

 

In summary, I guess my question is about what migration only happens when you update as opposed to what happens when an older version of a resource or service is detected after an update.  Hopefully there is more of the latter than the former. 

 

Thanks in advance for any thoughts on this.

 

Cheers,

Ashley.

Posted on Dec 21, 2013 7:00 PM

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    Ashley Aitken Ashley Aitken Dec 31, 2013 8:03 PM in response to Ashley Aitken
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    Dec 31, 2013 8:03 PM in response to Ashley Aitken

    Thanks everyone for the great help.

     

    I have managed (after a number of attempts) to (hopefully) have a Snow Leopard Server upgraded to Mavericks Server (although not thorughly tested, the Wikis work etc) and a freshly installed empty Mavericks Server.  I have also exported the OD from the orginal SLS (before the upgrade to MS).

     

    As mentioned this is a SOHO so not a large operation although the server has gathered a lot of cruft (user accounts no longer needed, and other stuff) over the many years of operations and upgrades (from the first version of Mac OS X Server).  So I wish to start as fresh as possible without losing core data.

     

    Most important to move are Mail, Wikis, and Websites.  The data should be in the right places now in the MS upgrade.  My question is: will it be possible for me to effectively create the new OD data for (less than a dozen each of) users, wikis and Web sites?  My hope by doing this is that I will have a cleaner OD.

     

    Finally, any way to recover the mailing list archives from original Snow Leopard Server (even just as a series of emails or Web pages extracted from the wiki). I think a nicer upgrade would have just kept the mailing list archives as additional pages (that can be deleted) in each of the wikis.  Deleting data is not nice.

     

    Cheers,

    Ashley.

  • by Ashley Aitken,

    Ashley Aitken Ashley Aitken Dec 31, 2013 9:25 PM in response to Ashley Aitken
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    Dec 31, 2013 9:25 PM in response to Ashley Aitken

    I should have also said: Happy New Year to everyone (at least it is 2014 downunder in Aus)!

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