Server 4.1 lost track of ServiceData Location - all Calendar data gone

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Server 4.1 lost track of ServiceData Location - all Calendar data gone

I upgraded to 10.10.3 from 10.9.5 and to OS X Server.app 4.1 two days ago.

Everything seemed fine, until about an hour ago when I noticed my shared Calendars had gone offline.

Using Server.app I turned the Calendar feature off & on a few times but it would get hung up on "Starting" so I finally rebooted the server.

Lo and behold, Calendar started up, but ALL MY CALENDAR DATA IS GONE. When I connect to the calendars, they all are blank, having only a single "calendar" calendar inside them. It really looks like the Calendar service has just created blank empty ones. Not good, not good at all.

Clue 1: My setup is pretty conventional, except I do have my Service Data on a second external drive (instead of the boot drive). When I went to look at that setting in Server.app(Seettings/Service Data:) instead of showing the name of the external drive, it shows "Custom..." That's odd.

Clue 2: I took a look at the Calendar and Contacts Error Log file and I see errors like this:

2015-05-21 19:09:54-0700 [-] [caldav-1] Missing configuration file: /Volumes/Server/Library/Server/Calendar and Contacts/Config/caldavd-user.plist

That's odd, since my service data has always been located at /Volumes/Server/ServiceData/ not /Volumes/Server/Library/Server

Note: "Server" is the name of my external drive.

What seems like is happening is that Server.app is confused about where my external ServiceData is located.

I'm not panicking just yet : the good news is I have TimeMachine backups of both my Boot drive and my external drive, going back in time more than a week (well before I updated to Server 4.1).

My plan is this:

Figure out which plist or configuration file tells Server.app where my ServiceData is located.
Trash Server.app
Reboot
Restore my ServiceData folder from a backup before I updated to Server 4.1 / 10.10
Manually edit the plist with the correct path to my ServiceData folder
Install Server.app

I'm stuck on step 1 : where is the "ServiceData" path stored?

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mavericks (10.9.5)

Posted on May 21, 2015 7:30 PM

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xmddmx Author

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May 21, 2015 8:42 PM in response to xmddmx

I tried a different approach, and things got worse!

Using Server.app / Settings / Service Data / Edit: I set my service data location to my external drive. This did a big copy, which I suspect was junk, but that doesn't matter.
Deleted Server.app
Using TimeMachine, restored /Library/Server/ from a 10.9 / Server 3.x backup
Using TimeMachine, copied my old /Volumes/Server/ServiceData to the new location /Volumes/Server/Library/Server
Rebooted
Reinstalled Server.app 4.1

Results:

Not only are my calendars empty, now I've also lost all Users & Groups settings!

Clearly either I don't understand where OS X Server stores it's data, or the Server.app itself is still confused about where the data belongs.

Clue #4: after the reboot, Server.app/Settings/Service Data: is back to showing "Custom" as the location. Before the reboot id showed the name of my external drive.

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