Need Recover earlier iCal Server Data after Failed 3.2.1

After a nightmare updating from 10.6.8 Server to 10.9 Server a couple off months back when we had a hardware failure. We ended up with endless Open Directory errors mostly caused by Apple's botched migration tool and hours spent at the terminal solving these.
We updated to 3.2.1 on Friday night prior to knowing about the Postgres fail it causes. The server ran normally with mail/filesharing/open directory etc. and we opened up the ports to it.
By Saturday morning I started getting text messages from users saying that their calendars were missing. As it was the weekend and little important commercial email had come in, I rolled back the system using the Server Restore Time Machine instructions Restoring OS X Server from a Time Machine backup to a few hours before the update and everything seemed fine. Mail and calendars were there and the mail data definitely corresponded to the time of backup.
Unfortunately on Monday morning I started to get reports from users that while the older calendar events were present, recent data from the last week or so appeared to be missing. I have restored repeatedly trying from many different backups (at 1.5 hrs per try) and the same issue arrises. A lot of these calendar events are crucial to our business.
One I'm super annoyed that Apple let this update out at all. What on earth is going on over there??! I'm seriously considering shifting to a more stable supplier/platform. Two I'm annoyed that I let it go live (But I don't see how I could have check all users individual calendar events) ... and three ... I need a way to test calendar data from lots of Time Machine backups without restoring the whole system each time. I've been up 30+ hours. Apple's instructions don't work. I think I can see where the Calendar Data is stored ( Macintosh HD/Library/Server/Calendar and Contacts).
Is there a way to just recover this data? by means of
Switching Off the Calendar service > Transfer Data > Switch On Calendar Service
I don't mind the terminal.... obviously I'm a Mac user so would prefer GUI say by using CCC.
Please HELP! Apple isn't!
I've been through all of the discussion posts in
Server 3.2.1 update fail
postgreSQL broken fatally with Server 3.2.1
Server 3.2.1 (10.9.5) – Postgres won't start

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Nov 27 15:50:47 funserver org.calendarserver.calendarserver[1483]: "Configuration option 'UserQuotaBytes' is deprecated in favor of 'UserQuota'."
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Nov 27 15:50:47 funserver org.calendarserver.calendarserver[1483]: 2009-11-27 15:50:47+0100 [-] reactor class: <class 'twisted.internet.selectreactor.SelectReactor'>
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2008-03-17 15:46:20-0500 [-] [caldav-8009] [-] app.run(runApp, ServerOptions)
2008-03-17 15:46:20-0500 [-] [caldav-8009] [-] File "/usr/share/caldavd/lib/python/twisted/application/app.py", line 379, in run
2008-03-17 15:46:20-0500 [-] [caldav-8009] [-] runApp(config)
2008-03-17 15:46:20-0500 [-] [caldav-8009] [-] File "/usr/share/caldavd/lib/python/twisted/scripts/twistd.py", line 23, in runApp
2008-03-17 15:46:20-0500 [-] [caldav-8009] [-] _SomeApplicationRunner(config).run()
2008-03-17 15:46:20-0500 [-] [caldav-8009] [-] File "/usr/share/caldavd/lib/python/twisted/application/app.py", line 157, in run
2008-03-17 15:46:20-0500 [-] [caldav-8009] [-] self.application = self.createOrGetApplication()
2008-03-17 15:46:20-0500 [-] [caldav-8009] [-] File "/usr/share/caldavd/lib/python/twisted/application/app.py", line 202, in createOrGetApplication
2008-03-17 15:46:20-0500 [-] [caldav-8009] [-] ser = plg.makeService(self.config.subOptions)
2008-03-17 15:46:20-0500 [-] [caldav-8009] [-] File "/usr/share/caldavd/lib/python/twistedcaldav/tap.py", line 593, in makeService
2008-03-17 15:46:20-0500 [-] [caldav-8009] [-] service = serviceMethod(options)
2008-03-17 15:46:20-0500 [-] [caldav-8009] [-] File "/usr/share/caldavd/lib/python/twistedcaldav/tap.py", line 360, in makeService_Slave
2008-03-17 15:46:20-0500 [-] [caldav-8009] [-] baseDirectory = directoryClass(**config.DirectoryService['params'])
2008-03-17 15:46:20-0500 [-] [caldav-8009] [-] File "/usr/share/caldavd/lib/python/twistedcaldav/directory/appleopendirectory.py", line 107, in _init_
2008-03-17 15:46:20-0500 [-] [caldav-8009] [-] self.recordsForType(recordType)
2008-03-17 15:46:20-0500 [-] [caldav-8009] [-] File "/usr/share/caldavd/lib/python/twistedcaldav/directory/appleopendirectory.py", line 392, in recordsForType
2008-03-17 15:46:20-0500 [-] [caldav-8009] [-] return self._storage(recordType)["records"]
2008-03-17 15:46:20-0500 [-] [caldav-8009] [-] File "/usr/share/caldavd/lib/python/twistedcaldav/directory/appleopendirectory.py", line 369, in _storage
2008-03-17 15:46:20-0500 [-] [caldav-8009] [-] self.reloadCache(recordType)
2008-03-17 15:46:20-0500 [-] [caldav-8009] [-] File "/usr/share/caldavd/lib/python/twistedcaldav/directory/appleopendirectory.py", line 495, in reloadCache
2008-03-17 15:46:20-0500 [-] [caldav-8009] [-] if recordShortName in disabled_names or guid in disabled_guids:
2008-03-17 15:46:20-0500 [-] [caldav-8009] [-] TypeError: list objects are unhashable
Here is the output of dscl /Search -read /Users/diradmin:
dsAttrTypeNative:apple-generateduid: 89BD1949-A296-4579-8F66-A1A90052B438
dsAttrTypeNative:apple-serviceslocator: FA7596AD-76CA-4139-B885-83E442E7F8D1:A73D8EC2-76A2-4F61-A4DA-A32ED611A72C:calen dar
dsAttrTypeNative:authAuthority: [snip]
dsAttrTypeNative:cn:
Directory Administrator
dsAttrTypeNative:gidNumber: 20
dsAttrTypeNative:givenName: Directory
dsAttrTypeNative:homeDirectory: /Users/diradmin
dsAttrTypeNative:loginShell: /bin/bash
dsAttrTypeNative:objectClass: inetOrgPerson posixAccount shadowAccount apple-user extensibleObject organizationalPerson top person
dsAttrTypeNative:sn: Administrator
dsAttrTypeNative:uid: diradmin
dsAttrTypeNative:uidNumber: 1000
dsAttrTypeNative:userPassword: ******
AppleMetaNodeLocation: /LDAPv3/127.0.0.1
AuthenticationAuthority: [snip]
FirstName: Directory
GeneratedUID: 89BD1949-A296-4579-8F66-A1A90052B438
LastName: Administrator
NFSHomeDirectory: /Users/diradmin
Password: ******
PrimaryGroupID: 20
RealName:
Directory Administrator
RecordName:
diradmin
Directory Administrator
RecordType: dsRecTypeStandard:Users
ServicesLocator: FA7596AD-76CA-4139-B885-83E442E7F8D1:A73D8EC2-76A2-4F61-A4DA-A32ED611A72C:calen dar
UniqueID: 1000
UserShell: /bin/bash
Does anyone have any suggestions for debugging this issue?
This is, of course, just the first step. My next step is to use Directory Utility to map openldap attributes to opendirectory attributes. That actually seems to be working OK, but I can't know for sure until I get the server working for OD users.
Thanks in advance.
Message was edited by: Ed F
Message was edited by: Ed F

There is something odd about a record the server is trying to load. Can you try this:
1) In Workgroup Manager disable calendaring for ALL users.
2) Restart calendar server and see if it starts up (it should).
3) Create a new user in Workgroup Manager and enable calendaring on that one only.
4) Restart calendar server and see if it starts up.
5) For the existing users, enable calendaring on each one and try and find the one that causes the calendar server to not startup.
6) Once you have identified the problem record, do a dump of its attributes via dscl and post here.

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Hi
I have 10.6.1 server with a group calendar served on a wiki. There are multiple users using 10.6.1 macbook, using ical to display/edit the group calendar. Server has a correctly configured FQDN. Apart from some niggles (will come to later), all has been fine for the last 2 weeks - all 10.6 clients have been able to connect without problems (to FQDN:8008/principals/wikis/groupadministration ). I do not have SSL. Today, one of the clients could no longer update the group calendar or refresh it (for changes from other people).
The following is in the client system log:
iCal[278] Exception in -[CalDAVAccountRefreshQueueableOperation refreshWithExceptionHandling] :: * -[NSCFString rawInterval]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x165437f0
In the server caldavd error log:
[caldav-8009] [-] [twistedcaldav.method.propfind#error] Error reading property ('DAV:', 'current-user-privilege-set') for resource /calendars/_uids_/wiki-groupadministration/inbox/: <StatusResponse 401 Access denied while reading property {DAV:}current-user-privilege-set.>
Web access still works for this user.
There have been no changes to any set up and the user in question had no problems in the last 2 weeks, until today. I understand it just "stopped working" this morning - user can offer no further help.
In other niggles (possibly unrelated but if anyone can help):
* I have an older client, running 10.5.8 with no wish to upgrade to 10.6, as there are some software compatibility issues (Adobe CS2, Parallels 3) and no budge to update software. ical has never been able to connect to the ical server reliably - after the first update/sync, no further updates are possible.
* It is not possible to disable alarms to the group calendar in ical. Option-i, uncheck the box, and 30 seconds later the box is checked again. Each user has their own "personal" calendar in the group calendar, and some users like to have alarms. It is not possible to disable those alarms for other users.
Hope someone can help. All in all, I am not particularly impressed with SL server.

Hello all,
since yesterday I'm having the same problem. the server was even not touched the last days.
Thank you
Horst

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Hi everybody,
How would one migrate the iCal Server from one Lion Server to a new Lion Server?
And related to this question: how do you export the iCal Server data for backup purposes?
Greetings,
Martin

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Hi All,
I have been trying to fix this for days now. I have tried solutions in many articles but to no avail. So while the error message is something you may have seen may times, I just can't find a solution in my case.
This is the error:
And in text just in case the image isn't viewable:
"External Data Refresh Failed. We cannot locate a server to load the workbook Data Model. We were unable to refresh one or more data connections in this workbook. The following connections failed to refresh: ThisWorkBookDataModel."
What is worse is I have checked the ULS (SharePoint Trace Logs), the Event Viewer Logs and the OWA Logs and I cannot find a specific error that would help pin point the problem.
Excel Workbook
So what am I doing? I have an Excel 2013 workbook and I create an "SQL Server" connection to the AdventureWorksDW database, add a pivot table and a pivot chart, test in in Excel and all works fine.
I save the Excel workbook to SharePoint 2013 and then select "Data" then "Refresh All Connections" and then I get the error in the picture above.
Even more puzzling is I have another Excel workbook that also has pivot tables and pivot charts in the AdventureWorksDW2012Multidimensional cube database in "SQL Analysis Services" and this works fine. Hmmm.
My Environment
My environment is Windows 2008 R2 Server, SharePoint 2013 with the April Service Pack1 and a separate server with OWA2013 SP1. It has an SQL Server 2008 R2 database which has been upgraded to SQL Server 2012.
Data Model Settings
In Excel Services this is set to my server name which is "server-name". As I do not have instances all I can enter is the server name. As this works everywhere else including the workbook outside of SharePoint I do not think this is the problem.
But I could be wrong.
Unattended Account
I have set this up for the PowerPivot Services App and Excel Services App.
ODC Connections in Excel
I have tried all 3 authentication modes, Windows, Secure Store ID and "None" which is the unattended account. I have not tried the other connection types, should I?
Not in WOPI
I am not in WOPI mode.
AD Accounts
I have added permissions in the SharePoint Services and SQL Server, and as they work in Excel outside of SharePoint, I do not think it is a permissions issue. I could be wrong of course, but the problem is in one of SharePoint, OWA, AD,
SQL Server, Excel, and Windows Server.
Isolate the Error
Below is a list of errors I think are relevant but they do not tell me much. The SharePoint logs are not really giving me an error that tells me what to do and where to do it, or even why it cannot refresh, (perhaps not noticeable by the untrained eye).
Problem with SQL Server Not Analysis Services
So my cube database in analysis services works fine in SharePoint/OWA but not the databases in sql server. This is my best clue but I have no idea what it means. Why would it work with an Analysis Services connection but not an "SQL Server" connection?
It Works Outside of SharePoint
If I run the excel worksheet outside of SharePoint all works fine. When inside OWA this is where the refresh error occurs.
Errors from Event Viewer on SharePoint Server using ULS Viewer
"Failed to create an external connection or execute a query. Provider message: There are no servers available or actively being initialized., ConnectionName: , Workbook:"
"Refresh failed for 'ThisWorkbookDataModel' in the workbook 'http://server...'. [Session: 1.V22.26itT0lx8piNFeqtuGVhN214.5.en-US5.en-US36.98c0e158-9113-46e9-850e-edda81d9ed1c1.A1.N User: 0#.w|ad\testuser1]"
And an error in the ULS under the "Data Model" category:
"--> Check Deployment Mode (server-name): Fail (Expected: SharePoint, Actual: Multidimensional)."
This last error, as it turned out, defined the problem concisely, although I was yet to work out what it meant in some detail.

I finally solved this myself (or should I say with the help of several key articles).
The refresh did not work because the database was not in "SharePoint Mode". Yes, SQL Server has modes, 3 of them in fact.
If you installed SharePoint to the default SQL instance which would be called <servername> then you cannot use this default instance for Excel 2013 workbooks in OWA 2013 because the refresh only works if the database is in SharePoint mode.
So what are these 3 modes? The Deployment Mode property in the msmdsrv.ini file has them as:
0 = Multidimensional mode (the default whenever you install SQL Server normally)
1 = PowerPivot for SharePoint mode
2 = Tabular mode mode
How do you know what mode you are in? That's easy, open SQL Studio Manager and connect to all your SQL database engine instances (ignore Analysis Services or SSRS as they are not database engines). If you only have the default instance then that is almost
definately in Multidimensional mode which is the default and what SharePoint installs its databases to.
You must have an instance called <servername>\POWERPIVOT. This instance is the "sharepoint mode" needed, and the default instance name when you install an SQL instance in this mode.
If you don't see <servername>\POWERPIVOT in SQL server then you are not in "sharepoint mode". It is more accurate to say, you do not have an instance that is in sharepoint mode. This is because you cannot simply switch modes on an SQL server.
You have to install a new instance in the required mode, thats the only way.
That's easy enough. Load up the SQL Server setup CD and run setup. Install a brand new instance and select "SQL Server PowerPivot for SharePoint" when you get there in the wizard.
Now you will have the default instance that stores all the SharePoint databases and that is in mode 0, and a new instance called <servername>\POWERPIVOT that is in mode 1. The "<servername>\POWERPIVOT" instance connection is what you
will use for Excel 2013 when rendering in OWA 2013.
You also need to ensure OWA 2013 is not in WOPI mode for Excel worksheets. See the last link below for more information about WOPI.
Next you should go to the Excel Service App in CA and click Data Model Settings and add the <servername>\POWERPIVOT instance.
Then you have to either turn off the firewall on the SQL server machine, or create an inbound rule on the Windows firewall to open the TCP port for the <servername>\POWERPIVOT instance:
1. Start Task Manager and then click Services to get the PID of the MSOLAP$InstanceName.
2. Run netstat –ao –p TCP from the command line to view the TCP port information for that PID.
Finally, you can now create Excel 2013 workbooks that run in OWA without refresh errors, as long as you are connecting to the <servername>\POWERPIVOT instance. Hooray.
REFERENCES
Look for the string "There are no servers available or actively being initialized" in this article:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/analysisservices/archive/2012/08/02/verifying-the-excel-services-configuration-for-powerpivot-in-sharepoint-2013.aspx
Determine the server mode:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-au/library/gg471594(v=sql.110).aspx
Install the SharePoint PowerPivot instance (aka SharePoint mode)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-au/library/eec38696-5e26-46fa-bc83-aa776f470ce8(v=sql.110)
Open the port for the new SQL instance:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms174937(v=sql.110).aspx
Turn Off WOPI for Excel OWA
http://blogs.technet.com/b/excel_services__powerpivot_for_sharepoint_support_blog/archive/2013/01/31/powerpivot-for-sharepoint-browser-refresh-fails-data-refresh-not-supported-in-office-web-apps.aspx

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