Best Way to "Move" OS X Server

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Best Way to "Move" OS X Server

I’m hoping someone has done something similar and can offer some suggestions.

I have an old Mac Pro (tower) and external RAID running 10.9.5 and OS X Server. Unfortunately, 10.9.5 is the maximum OS I can use with the LSI HBA RAID card. Drivers have been discontinued and they don’t work with 10.10 or 10.11.

Anyway, I want to “move” Server to a new Mac Pro using an ATTO ThunderLink adapter with the external RAID, while keeping Users, Groups, Shares, Services, Permissions, etc.

Options:

- Boot from a 10.11 FlashDrive and restore the 10.9.5 Time Machine backup to the new Mac Pro, then upgrade to 10.11 and the Server application.

- Upgrade to 10.11 on the old Mac Pro first (external RAID won’t be recognized), create a Time Machine backup, then restore that to the new Mac Pro.

- Use Carbon Copy Cloner to clone the old Mac Pro either before OS X is upgraded, or after.

Any thoughts are greatly appreciated.

Thank you,

Posted on Aug 26, 2016 7:53 PM

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Answer 1

Sep 2, 2016 2:24 AM in response to Bob Johnston1

Hi Bob,

IMO, consider migrating to the new Mac Pro at OS version 10.9.5:

- Use OS X: About Recovery Disk Assistant - Apple Support to create a Recovery USB ( works for Mavericks )

- Boot the new machine from the Recovery USB and Restore the 10.9.5 Time Machine Backup to the Internal Drive.

- Run Time Machine Backup on the new machine. Use a different disk to the Time Machine Disk of the old Server.

- Then upgrade to 10.11.5

- Install the new ATTO ThunderLink adapter / RAID and software.

HTH

Cheers, dwbrecovery

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Answer 2

Sep 2, 2016 2:26 AM in response to dwbrecovery

Thank you for the info. It was very helpfu. I did something similar Last night.

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