Lion Server upgrade disaster, help restoring Dovecot.

Hi,
I tried to upgrade the Snow Leopard Server running in my Mac Mini to Lion Server, it was a complete disaster.
I made a Carbon Copy Clone of the hard drive as my backup before performing the upgrade, bottom line is that I went back and re-installed Snow Leopard Server and glad that it's all back up and running as before. The only thing left for me to do is to restore all the emails that was on the backup drive to the main drive.
I tried googling this and didn't get any straight forward answer, how do I restore all the emails from the backup drive to the main drive?
Any help would be highly appreciated.
Cheers!

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Hi everyone,
I've had a tough time over the past week trying to updating my SLS to LS. (It was a slow week at the office so despite the warnings in these discussions I wasn't disturbing anyone, so I thought I'd try...) Both an upgrade to the current running system and a clean install on a wipe of that hard drive stall at the "Configuring Services" "Upgrading services" screen of the set up process. The migration path eventually fails, and as far as I can tell, it seems that the upgrade path just stays there forever.
Don't worry - I'm doing this all on a Super Duper! clone of my primary drive, so I can go back to SLS whenever I need to.
BUT, I can tell that the server's status is at least partially okay, even in this stalled setup state - iChat seems to work on various clients, and I can use Server Admin to see stats and services, etc.
So despite the discomfort of a failed install, part of me feels like I'll be fine with the LS if I can just figure out how to move my old data into the right places for the new system to use it. But I can't find any guidance for that. I'm looking to migrate OD (seems to have migrated fine), iCal, iChat, Address Book, Wikis, Time Machine, and File Sharing (which should be trivial to set up, I reckon).
Can anyone point me in the right direction?
Thanks very much,
Willhaus

Okay, so I've had some marginal success.
After leaving the hung install for a ridiculous amount of time (24+ hours), I realized that I could click the help button, and from the help window click the "further info about Lion Server" link to launch Safari. That gave me access to Software Update from the Apple menu, which then let me install the latest Safari update which conveniently enough requires a restart.
After restart, the Server Migration Assistant kicked in again, but failed quickly in the upgrading services stage. Another restart, and the sever finally booted more or less normally.
The strange thing was that although chat services worked fine during the hung install, all OD-related services stopped working after restarting. Turns out there were no users or groups in OD. Importing them from an OD archive, though, restored them.
So now iChat works great (even the old chat longs migrated successfully), and AFP is properly sharing our volumes across our studio's network. So our server is limping along.
The other services we need that aren't up yet are Wiki and iCal. Some info about those:
Wiki: administrators can log in and see all wikis just fine. That's awesome because it means the data migrated successfully. Any non-admin users can log in, but are then get a wiki-styled page that says simply "No wikis found". It's as if they don't have permissions to see the wikis, even though in Server.app they belong to the groups that the wikis are associated with. I've tried removing and re-adding users to groups, but that doesn't seem to do it. Any ideas how to fix this?
Calendar: While I can't get this to work, it's not like it's completely lifeless. An account in a client Lion iCal configured with the proper Lion settings returns an error that reads:
"The Server is Busy or Unavailable.
"The server at myserver.com is currently unable to handle the connection for account “ Calendars” due to a temporary overloading or maintenance of the server. If this continues you should contact the server administrator.
"You may try to connect to the server again or take the account offline."
As a logged in administrator, in a wiki clicking on Calendar in the nab bar goes to the calendar style page with an unending dialogue box that reads "Getting events from server". And clicking on Calendar from Home page footer takes me to the URL https://myserver.com/webcal with an error that says:
"Service Temporarily Unavailable
The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later.
Apache/2.2.20 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.20 OpenSSL/0.9.8r DAV/2 Server at myserver.com Port 443"
Again, at least I'm confident that the data migrated properly - I can find all the calendar data in it's proper new location - but either the service won't start or something's not configured correctly. I've tried chaining the hostname and restarting the service about a billion times. I've got no idea what to try next. Any ideas?
Thank you so much,
Willhaus

Lost start up account after lion server upgrade

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How do I get my admin login back?
Regards,
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not sure if it works the same for server - but this has helped a lot of folks (me included)
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I have a backup of my Web site but how to I clean this up so I can even start from scratch !?!

I have the final solution and fix but beware you may not like it that much.
Having had all of the above problems with more or less everything I finally pieced it all together from various threads. This will fix both the AEBS control and the central services problems. Dont shout at me for being a bit basic and not coding etc. but it worked for me. If I can avoid code I do as often as possible as am less likely to balls it up!
This method will loose some data but the main files and users do remain
The Fix:
1. Close Server.app
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7 Reconfigure any missing bits..... any enrolled devices will have vanished but probably if you have saved the data from this in Library/Server prior to deletion you may be able to reinstate this but I didnt risk it
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Lion server upgrade broke wikis

I had several virtural domains set up on snow leopard server
mydomain.com1
mydomain.com2
etc...
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However, after upgrading to lion server none of the wikis work. Typeing in the url of an old wiki gives the message "Server Error" in the browser, and throws a "nstat_lookup_entry failed 2" message in console.
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I know this is not the thing to do but I am reposting this query in OX X server forum.
refer https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4475641

Lion Server: How can I restore OD after a crash ?

Hello all,
the issue is not new but I found no way how to repair the OD database. I admit I am no expert and I rely upon senior advice.
I ran the restore command as described here to no avail:
http://www.prestonlee.com/2009/07/08/recovering-a-corrupt-openldap-database-on-o sx-server/
What happened ?
After a Finder crash we had to re-boot our Lion Server (10.7.5) with the power button and after that the Network Accounts were all gone because OD's LDAP, Kerberos and Password Server were no longer running.
I re-stored the server from a TM back-up just the day before and I got back the network accounts but this is probably just a last resort.
What is the quickest way to restore OD services in Lion Server ?
Thanks for your help,
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goeres wrote:
But do we need all the blows and wristles?
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Instead of improving the admin tools that were available with SL Server, they simply removed too many of them. That would suggest that they've given up on the market for business servers to focus on the market for toy servers for home use, which is a bit disconserting considering that Lion Server's security is also woefully lacking out of the box. It's hard to figure how any IT professional could take it seriously.
The Internet is a dangerous place to play with a server. Apple's quest to simplify OS X Server with Lion has resulted in a server package that is dangerously simplistic. If Lion Server becomes popular for home use, I expect to see a rapid expansion of botnets.

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I've been looking around for instructions on upgrading from Snow Leopard Server to Lion Server. What I've found seems odd to me; so I must upgrade "Snow Leopard Server" -> "Lion" -> "Lion Server"? I feel like I'm missing something here. However, if indeed this is correct, what happens to all of your data for the services that are only available on the server editions?

Thanks for the response. We have a handful of licenses for Lion (volume licensing), which I was previously unaware that we would need to use one for a server upgrade; so I don't want to do a "download both" action. In my case would you suspect that the proper steps would be to 1. Upgrade to "Lion" (then update), 2. Upgrade to "Lion Server" (then update)?
Did you have any issues with Open Directory when you upgraded?

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I can't seem to get the App Store to sell me Lion Server for my Snow Leopard Server. I'm trying to remain positive about this but I'm getting really ****** that money isn't enough to make this happen. My experiencewith the App Store and Apple policies in general is its almost time to dump OS X and head back to Open Source.
So, what's the secret? I put money in my iTunes account. I've done the 15 logins it takes to satisfy AppleID my account is complete and up-to-date in the store and the Support Communities. How do I buy the software and actually download and install it?
Thanks

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http://www.apple.com/macosx/server/how-to-buy/

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I just upgraded our server to Lion today, and along with a slew of other issues, we can't get iChat working! It worked initially, for about the first ten minutes after the upgrade, but now all I get is the following error message in the server log:
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Oct 28 20:47:18 reactor jabberd/sm[4987]: failed loading module 'disco-publish' to chain 'pkt-user' (dlopen(/var/jabberd/modules/jabberd2/mod_disco-publish.so, 1): image not found)
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Oct 28 20:47:18 reactor jabberd/sm[4987]: failed loading module 'disco-publish' to chain 'user-delete' (dlopen(/var/jabberd/modules/jabberd2/mod_disco-publish.so, 1): image not found)
Oct 28 20:47:18 reactor jabberd/sm[4988]: failed loading module 'disco-publish' to chain 'pkt-user' (dlopen(/var/jabberd/modules/jabberd2/mod_disco-publish.so, 1): image not found)
Oct 28 20:47:18 reactor jabberd/sm[4988]: failed loading module 'disco-publish' to chain 'user-load' (dlopen(/var/jabberd/modules/jabberd2/mod_disco-publish.so, 1): image not found)
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So obviously it's missing the disco-publish module, but I'm not sure what to do about it, or the authreg module. I checked the var/jabberd/modules/jabberd2 directory, and the .so file is indeed missing. Any help is appreciated!

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IT 7.6 upgrade disaster -- HELP!!

my wife bought an iphone today and i had to upgrade from 7.x to 7.6 in order to activate. when doing so, i tried synching the phone with some of my tunes/podcasts and an error box popped up saying i needed 63 gigs more space! funny because my entire library is 23.1 gigs....when i went back to the library screen in the upgraded version of itunes, at the bottom, it says i have 4300 songs that comprise 551.84 GIGABYTES of space...and when i tried to synch my ipod it gives me another error saying it needs a ga-jillion more gigabytes to synch.....what in the world is going on? anyone? i checked my itunes library folder and it says 23.1 gigabytes. have i done something wrong?
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Have you had a chance to look at this troubleshooting page? It may be of some help: No content shows up in iTunes after updating
You could also try holding down the Shift key in Windows when launching iTunes. In the resulting dialogue you will get the option to create a new library or navigate to an existing one. The default location for your iTunes library is in \Documents and Settings\Username\My Documents\My Music\iTunes\. Look in there and see if you have more than one library file (they have the extension .itl) If you have more than one try opening them in turn, you may find your original library is still intact: How to open an alternate iTunes Library file

Where's the Mountain Lion Server Documentation?

Been waiting all day for Mountain Lion Server Documentation the be posted to no avail. What gives? Especially need the Mountain Lion Server Upgrading & Migrating manual. I help run a small educational cmoputer center in Santa Cruz CA and we need to transition from 10.5 Leopard Server on an old G5 Power Mac to 10.8 Mountain Lion Server on a new 2012 Mac mini as soon as it goes on sale. We particularly need the Workgroup Manager migration app documentation ASAP. Can any Apple employees explain why the Mountain Lion server documentation is not posted even though you can download the Mountain Lion Server since this morning?

Good Luck in Migrating from 10.5 Server to 10.8 Server... There's soo many changes.. Each time I've upgraded since 10.2.X server, I've always had to manual migrate things. Forget the automated upgraded process since it always hangs for me.
As for 10.6.8 Server, Apple changed the imap/pop server software from cyrus to dovecot. There's a script if I recall somewhere in 10.6.8 Server convert the imap mail of all the users. However before you run that script I recommend that you rebuild the imap structure in cyrus before you do...
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3120
as for mirgrating OD user.... archive the users...
and import it...

Lion Server DNS service not working for locally created zones. Caching working fine.

OS Lion Server DNS service not working for local zones. Was fine under Snow leopard server but Lion server upgrade has severely broken my DNS and web sites. Zones look fine under Server Admin but keep getting "query failed (SERVFAIL) for xxxx at /SourceCache/bind9/bind9-42/bind9/bin/named/query.c:3921" in the logs. BTW - Server Admin cant seem to see the log file either.
Surely someone actually tested that DNS still worked on Lion?

I upgraded from Snow Leopard Server to Lion Server on day 01. I hit the same issue where, after the upgrade, my Lion Server stopped serving names for my private local domain.
I finally took a few minutes to figure out what was wrong. After turning on debug logging and looking through the logs, I found my particular issue, now resolved.
The issue I had was, when the domain initially was setup when I installed Snow Leopard Server, for some reason it created a zone just for the server (in my case, something like zone "s-01.mydomain.priv"), and a separate zone for all the other machines (zone "mydomain.priv", containing all the private IPs for my local domain). I never messed with it because it worked, but generally I would have put all of them in the same zone.
My zone "mydomain.priv" had a nameserver and mail exchanger entry for my server, s-01.mydomain.priv. I could see this in the Server Admin app on the DNS bubble, Zones tab, mydomain.priv selected, and the General Info panel. This was fine in Snow Leopard. This was failing the zone load in the updated bind for Lion Server, though. The issue was that the "mydomain.priv" zone was referencing the s-01.mydomain.priv server, which was not defined in the "mydomain.priv" zone but rather in the "s-01.mydomain.priv" zone.
My fix:
1. In Server Admin, add the server to the zone "mydomain.priv". I put an A record (Add Machine) in the "mydomain.priv" zone for my server named s-01.mydomain.priv.
2. shut down DNS on the OS X Lion Server (hit the Stop DNS button on Server Admin).
3. edit /etc/named.conf by hand, removing the specialized zones that contianed just the server. In this case, it would be the section titled 'zone "s-01.mydomain.priv"' and the section titled 'zone "3.10.1.10.in-addr.arpa"'. Your in-addr.arpa zone name will change based on whatever your server IP address was. My internal one happened to have s-01.mydomain.priv mapped to 10.1.10.3.
4. Once the specialized zones for just the server were removed, I started the DNS up again. Instead of serving four zones as it had in OS X Snow Leopard Server, it now servers two zones. And, now, it is resolving my local machines for the mydomain.priv zone.
YMMV. I did note that it wasn't totally necessary to do step 3, but I never really understood the need for the specialized domain, and keeping it around would have a copy of data that would just confuse things.
Hope that helps. That's been the only hiccup I've noticed updating to OS X Lion Server thus far.

Is there a manual for Lion Server?

Where can I find detailed documentation for Lion Server?

Piggy-backing but the lack of official documentation amazes me and can be seen as a sign of immature product roll-out. My similar question is below, but unless something has changed I will be looking at 3d party books (yes, in paper).
What is the best overall documentation and guide for using OS X Lion Server? I am using a Mac Mini (2.3/8GB/500GB) and learning the server in preparation for a small office server. I am just using it at home now but going to try multiple user config for iCal, document sharing, remote access, VPN server, print server, mail server, and back-up. I am suprised not only by the presence of so much adverse comment but even more by the apparent lack of solid and readily available documentation from apple--maybe it is there and I have just missed it. I downloaded from apple.com the .pdf
Lion Server
Upgrading and
Migrating
For Mac OS X v10.7 Lion Server.
Not much there for getting started from scratch. I viewed www.apple.com/macosx/server/ which is more marketing than help. I also went to https://discussions.apple.com/community/servers_enterprise_software/mac_os_x_lio n_server and ended up back here. Is there a good old fashioned paper book that I can sit in the sun with a cup of tea and start to both skim and study?
forrest

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Network rundown:
Mac Mini running Server
two MBPs (one upgraded to Lion, the other still running Snow Leopard)
The Mini is the OD Master for the three Macs and runs a number of services (Mail, Web, Wiki, VPN, etc.). The important service for this thread is that it serves out three shares via AFP, configured to be automounted on the two laptops. Normally all three shares are set up (via Workgroup Manager / Directory Utility) to use the Kerberos v2 UAM; however, for testing purposes I've temporarily adjusted the UAMs as follows:
/Groups -> afp://myserver/Groups
/Volumes/Attic -> afp://;AUTH=No%20User%20Authent@myserver/Attic
/Volumes/Multimedia -> afp://;AUTH=Client%20Krb%20v2@myserver/Multimedia
When the Mini is running Snow Leopard Server (10.6.8), the automounting behavior works as expected when connecting from a laptop without a valid Kerberos ticket:
lionmbp:~>klist -f
klist: krb5_cc_get_principal: No credentials cache file found
lionmbp:~>ls /Groups
ls: Groups: Invalid argument
lionmbp:~>ls /Volumes/Attic
[snip - file listing]
lionmbp:~>df -h /Volumes/Attic
Filesystem                                Size   Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
afp_000000004oMw0oYHtK4AvcMP-1.2d00010a 466Gi 277Gi 189Gi    60%    /Volumes/Attic
lionmbp:~>ls /Volumes/Multimedia
ls: Multimedia: Invalid argument
and then with a valid Kerberos ticket:
lionmbp:~>sudo umount /Volumes/Attic
Password:
lionmbp:~>df -h /Volumes/Attic
Filesystem    Size   Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
map -static    0Bi    0Bi    0Bi   100%    /Volumes/Attic
lionmbp:~>klist -f
[snip]
Sep 19 23:27:17 Sep 21 23:27:17 FPRIA krbtgt/DOMAIN@DOMAIN
lionmbp:~>ls /Groups
[snip - file listing]
lionmbp:~>ls /Volumes/Attic
[snip - file listing]
lionmbp:~>ls /Volumes/Multimedia/
[snip - file listing]
However, after upgrading the Mini to Lion Server (10.7.1), attempting to automount the same shares does not work at all, regardless of whether a valid Kerberos ticket exists or not
lionmbp:~>klist -f
klist: krb5_cc_get_principal: No credentials cache file found
lionmbp:~>ls /Groups
ls: Groups: Authentication error
lionmbp:~>ls /Volumes/Attic
ls: Attic: Input/output error
lionmbp:~>ls /Volumes/Multimedia/
ls: : Invalid argument
lionmbp: /usr/bin/kinit
[snip - provide password]
lionmbp:~>klist -f
[snip]
Sep 19 23:15:09 Sep 21 23:15:09 FPRIA krbtgt/DOMAIN@DOMAIN
lionmbp:~>date
Mon Sep 19 23:17:03 CDT 2011
lionmbp:~>ls /Groups
ls: Groups: Authentication error
lionmbp:~>ls /Volumes/Attic
ls: Attic: Input/output error
lionmbp:~>ls /Volumes/Multimedia/
ls: : Invalid argument
Anyone else encountering the same issues with AFP on Lion Server? Is AFP simply broken, or is there some poorly documented configuration/troubleshooting procedure that can resolve this issue?
Notes:
I only tried the automounting from the Lion MBP, I would expect that a Lion <-> Lion AFP connection would have fewer issues than Snow Leopard <-> Lion
The issue originally presented itself several weeks ago when I atttempted to upgrade the server; this AFP problem was a showstopper so I restored SL from a backup. I have since been testing by cloning the server drive to a USB drive, booting from it, and running the upgrade there.
In performing the Lion Server upgrade, I follow all the defaults. The server is booted off the USB drive to ensure it is in a working state before starting the upgrade. The only post-upgrade changes are to run Software Update (mainly to capture the recent security update) and then to follow the single signon instructions posted here

Some more testing hints in the direction of the problem:
aragorn:~>kinit -l 48h -r 48h -p -f [email protected]
[email protected]'s Password:
aragorn:~>klist -fCredentials cache: API:1501:10
        Principal: [email protected]
Issued           Expires        Flags    Principal
Oct 1 17:05:53 Oct 3 17:05:50 FPRIA krbtgt/[email protected]
aragorn:~>ls /Volumes/Multimedia
ls: Multimedia: Invalid argument
aragorn:~>mkdir /tmp/test; chmod 777 /tmp/test
aragorn:~>sudo mount_afp "afp://;AUTH=Client Krb [email protected]/Multimedia" /tmp/test
mount_afp: AFPMountURL returned error -50, errno is -50
Looking in MacErrors.h reveals
paramErr                      = -50, /*error in user parameter list*/
That both ways of mounting AFP seem to be complaining of argument/parameter errors indicates something isn't being passed across the network correctly or is not being parsed properly on one end or the other. At the moment my dtrace-fu isn't strong enough to delve into this more deeply.
With 10.7.2 due out soon, I think I'll wait to see if Apple engineering caught this already. If not, I'll raise a bug ticket.

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