Wiki Migration-ML to Mavericks-At my wits end. Need working steps.

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Wiki Migration-ML to Mavericks-At my wits end. Need working steps.

Today I did my nth attempt at upgrading our mountain lion server by first trying the upgrade on a clone of the server. For the nth time - no success.

Folks, I've been been trying off and on for months to upgrade our MacMini Server with Mountain Lion Server to Mavericks server, but the wiki and calendar migration have prevented me from doing so. Meanwhile the rest of our machines in the office are on Mavericks. This also means I can't use Server. app 3 on my Mavericks machine to manage the server since the server is on Mountain Lion Server.

I've tried Apple's documentation (http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5697)- gets "postgres_server:error = "CANNOT_START_SERVICE_ERR"" before finishing steps and a "could not connect to database template1: could not connect to server: No such file or directory" error
I've tried various steps outlined on user posts; particularly this great outline (https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5751873) - didn't work.
pg_dumps, restores, FileData copy/pastes - you name it - still no go.
I called Apple some time ago and their folks were no help whatsoever.

I am just absolutely baffled that Apple would make it this difficult to migrate collaboration data. Did I mention Calendar didn't work either.

Even moreso at this point it almost seems like I am just stuck with OS X server at 10.8.5

Not that anyone wants to post on yet another discussion about Wiki Migration, but my hope is that somewhere along this thread will be a [relatively] simple and concrete outline for a successful migration of the wiki data. Feel free to add steps to other collab services that don't migrate so easily.

Thanks folks.

Mac mini, Mac OS X (10.7.1)

Posted on Mar 6, 2014 8:52 PM

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Answer 1

Mar 7, 2014 4:10 AM in response to Tangier Clarke1

Sadly, without seeing all the logs and the process, I don't have a solution for your wiki data. Generally speaking the pg_dumps are the way I go. But I will make a suggestion regarding calendar.

In all cases so far, I've simply not tried to update the calendar. Instead, I've had users export calendars to a file on their workstations and then, once the server has been rebuilt/replaced, have them import the calendar data back into an empty, fresh instance of the the calendar store. Now, this is easy to administrate if you have under 20 users. But once you hit 50, it gets a bit more difficult because the law of averages states that there will be at least one user who can't follow directions in a timely fashion.

Now, I also tend to avoid upgrade attempts like they were a contagious disease. Unless I am forced with physical violence, I will always created another server along side the production system and move services. This allows for a clean everything. The upgrade process of OS X Server has never been smooth. I can recall a 10.4.x to 10.6.x upgrade that still makes me twitch.

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Answer 2

Jun 17, 2015 10:16 AM in response to Tangier Clarke1

I was searching for a way to migrate the Wiki from 10.9->10.10 and this worked like a charm for me: Wiki migration from Mavericks to Yosemite Server . You either need to use `sudo` before each command or `sudo su` at the start and his first command shouldn't include the `/`. I hope this helps others looking for this solution.

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