This version of Server does not support upgrading the Server data on this volume

Not sure why this is marked solved when it's not really solved.

Same situation: upgrading server from Yosemite to El Cap. Downloaded server 5.2, and I got the "This version of server does not support upgrading the server data on this volume."

Well now what do I do? I can't seem to find a previous version of Server (5.0.4). And of course why doesn't this version of server support upgrading the server data? Are version jumps unsupported? Where in the documentation does it say that?

Does Apple really expect me to blow away all my configuration because they're too lazy to write a data migrator? What a POS. If I knew this up front I wouldn't have bothered to move up.

What a disappointing POS.

I upgraded a Yosemite Mac Pro with Server to High Sierra and ran into this. I wanted to just do a clean install of Server, so I was okay with deleting data directories. I was able to get a clean install by deleting /Library/Server, /Library/WebServer and /Library/DirectoryServices and rerunning Server. It prompts for the admin credentials and seems to go through a normal setup after that.

Hi!

Did you try to remove all the contend of /Library/Server ?

Leave the folder on its place.

Good luck,

Peter.

Hi again,

I think this will delete all settings related to the server.app.

From which MacOS-version do you want to upgrade?

You can remove shares also in systempreferences/shares.

If you had enabled caching-server or update-server, you have to delete these files in other places. These folders are located on different places, maybe on other volumes. It depends on your configuration and preferences.

I had to delete the whole /Library/Server folder. After I did that everything installed fine.

Nice to hear...

This is what I thought! 🙂

You should close this discussion now with clicking "This solved my question".

Greetings, Peter.

Hi!

How did you retain your previous settings?

I always make a full copy of my startup-volume with ccc to an extern drive/volume. Chronosync or something else will work too.

With these apps you can also make a copy from selected folders.

So can you just copy your previous Library/Server Folder back after Server upgrade as completed? I thought it made changes to these folders/files during the upgrade.

You cannot copy the new Server-folder to the old system. There were made changes for sure!

Didn't you make a backup from your whole old system?

So can you retain previous settings and data through this process, or do you just end up with a vanilla server setup?

I don't understand?

If you have a full copy of your old server, you can use this backup.

If you don't have, you have to use your El Capitan server with the new settings. The old settings can't be upgraded like you told in your first question.

You wanted the possibility for a fresh server. I told you, how you can get this. You wrote, this worked fine. What do you want now?