Snow Leopard Server To Mavericks odmigration errors

Hi,

I am currently trying to migrate our old Mac Mini 10.6.8 server to a shiny new Mac Mini Mavericks/3.x server configuration as unfortunately the 10.6.8 Mac Mini is too old to accept Mavericks as an in-place upgrade.

I have prepared a bootable USB disk copy of our existing machine using Carbon Copy Cloner and this has been tested and confirmed to work.

I have booted the new Mac Mini with Mavericks and immediately followed the migration assistant using the above USB disk to migrate everything across. All seems fine at this point and the Mavericks machine boots correctly and is all data/apps are there apart from it obviously not yet having 3.x server installed.

Now I am following the instructions in the following article:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5381

which states that if the original 10.6.8 server was bound to an AD domain that I must run the odmigration tool BEFORE installing server.

This I did using the following command:

sudo /System/Library/Frameworks/OpenDirectory.framework/odmigrationtool -source '/Volumes/SourceServer' -target /

and I get the following errors:

Jun 5 13:13:06 DestServer.school.network odmigrationtool[1176] <Info>: No OpenDirectory configuration files at '/Volumes/SourceServer/Library/Preferences/OpenDirectory/Configurations'

Jun 5 13:13:06 DestServer.school.network odmigrationtool[1176] <Info>: Migration of existing node skipped '/LDAPv3/127.0.0.1'

Jun 5 13:13:06 DestServer.school.network odmigrationtool[1176] <Info>: Migration of existing node skipped '/Active Directory/CLEEVE'

Jun 5 13:13:06 DestServer.school.network odmigrationtool[1176] <Info>: No existing password for 'DestServer$' node '/Active Directory/CLEEVE'

Jun 5 13:13:06 DestServer.school.network odmigrationtool[1176] <Info>: Created new keychain password for 'DestServer$' node '/Active Directory/CLEEVE'

Jun 5 13:13:07 DestServer.school.network odmigrationtool[1176] <Error>: Error migrating sharepoint '/Volumes/SourceServer/private/var/db/dslocal/nodes/Default/config/SharePoints/ Administrator's Public Folder.plist' -> '/private/var/db/dslocal/nodes/Default/sharepoints/Administrator's Public Folder.plist' (A file with the name “Administrator's Public Folder.plist” already exists.)

Jun 5 13:13:07 DestServer.school.network odmigrationtool[1176] <Error>: Error migrating sharepoint '/Volumes/SourceServer/private/var/db/dslocal/nodes/Default/config/SharePoints/ DeploystudioRepos.plist' -> '/private/var/db/dslocal/nodes/Default/sharepoints/DeploystudioRepos.plist' (A file with the name “DeploystudioRepos.plist” already exists.)

Jun 5 13:13:07 DestServer.school.network odmigrationtool[1176] <Error>: Error migrating sharepoint '/Volumes/SourceServer/private/var/db/dslocal/nodes/Default/config/SharePoints/ MusicShare.plist' -> '/private/var/db/dslocal/nodes/Default/sharepoints/MusicShare.plist' (A file with the name “MusicShare.plist” already exists.)

Jun 5 13:13:07 DestServer.school.network odmigrationtool[1176] <Error>: Error migrating sharepoint '/Volumes/SourceServer/private/var/db/dslocal/nodes/Default/config/SharePoints/ NetBootClients0.plist' -> '/private/var/db/dslocal/nodes/Default/sharepoints/NetBootClients0.plist' (A file with the name “NetBootClients0.plist” already exists.)

Jun 5 13:13:07 DestServer.school.network odmigrationtool[1176] <Error>: Error migrating sharepoint '/Volumes/SourceServer/private/var/db/dslocal/nodes/Default/config/SharePoints/ NetBootSP0.plist' -> '/private/var/db/dslocal/nodes/Default/sharepoints/NetBootSP0.plist' (A file with the name “NetBootSP0.plist” already exists.)

Jun 5 13:13:07 DestServer.school.network odmigrationtool[1176] <Error>: Error migrating sharepoint '/Volumes/SourceServer/private/var/db/dslocal/nodes/Default/config/SharePoints/ Users.plist' -> '/private/var/db/dslocal/nodes/Default/sharepoints/Users.plist' (A file with the name “Users.plist” already exists.)

Obviously things don't appear to have gone to plan but I'm guessing the already existserrors are because those files have already been copied by the migration assistant. At this point I have not installed server for obvious reasons.

The other errors and information mean little to me as this is the first one I have ever migrated. My question is, can I do anything about these problems or do I need to rethink the work. Could I simply remove the old server from the active directory before taking a USB clone copy and then reinsert it as the new server afterwards? This is a school configuration so I am working around the school day and need to resolve this before the summer holidays as we are planning a workstation migration to Mavericks then as well and we need the server in place to correctly manage those. Any delay or failure on the server side means the workstations will be delayed also.

Any help and pointers are greatly appreciated.

Kind Regards

Radar