Properly Backing Up PHD's on OSX Server

Hi guys,
I have more of a "noob" question in regards to properly performing file backups for users' home directories. I have a small office with only 8 users, 8 separate iMac's and one MacPRO running OSX Server 10.4. I have all 8 user accounts set up as PHD's. The whole reason for the server is for us all to be able to have one central repository for files and I was also looking forward to being able to backup each users' home directories from the server via off-site data backup.
My problem comes with attempting to copy the users' folder properly, as all directories within the users folder are marked with the all-famous circle with a line through it. I am trying to be cautious as to not mess-up permissions for the user either, making things even worse.
Is there an easy way to get access to the entire contents of all users' folders stored on the server? I am logged in as Admin, however, am figuring that there are a few terminal commands that I will have to play around with to make this work properly? Thanks!
-Steve

Try using the ditto Terminal command as root or via sudo; this command will copy the files without granting a non-root user access to them.
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1.— Try getting rid of the [illegal] period after "2" in "2.0_Mens"… The server may be interpreting everything after the first period as the file type extension;
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In my clients (windows Thunderbird, Mac Mail, iOS mail), the settings are for the incoming mail server host name to be "mail.mycompany.com" and the outgoing also to be "mail.mycompany.com"
I woud have expected this to be imap.mycompany.com and smtp.mycompany.com respectively, but it doesn't work when I input these values and works with the former. Have I set this up wrong?? imap seems to require SSL on port 993 and SMTP seems to require TLS on port 587.Outlook on PC gives me an error that after googling appears to be a problem with not recognizing a fuly qualified hostname form the SMTP client. I see the fix, but wanted to know if that meant that my server didn't have a fully qualified host name and whether I should change that rather than just remove that restriction???
The final problem is that my outgoing emails seem to be getting caught up in other people's spam filters too frequently. What is the main reason for this? Is it because I have set something up wrong and it brings up flags or is it simply because I am not a huge hosting company, or somethign else althogether?
If you've gotten this far, big thanks! If you can help me, even more thanks!

Well, actually they are both getting caught up in spam filters and bounced back. I actually realized that part of the problem is that I have a dynamic IP address, but it doesn't change. Regardless, on the bounce back it looks like hotmail and other domains are rejecting email from my IP and recognize it as dynamic. This was a test server that i would by physically taking to my business where there is a static business IP address (Cox).
Sorry for the very long original message, but it seems that most people don't post enough information for the problem to be solved in their original posts and I was hoping to provide as much detail as possible.
The other is the question of "are things set up right?" It seems strange to me that both my outgoing and incoming servers are "mail.mycompany.com" and not imap.mycompany.com and smtp.mycompany.com and I wonder if this is going to cause me to have problems?
Is it a problem that my email addresses are [email protected] and not [email protected]?
Was I supposed to change the domain name on the router?
Also is it going to be a problem that I am using a self signed certificate?

Cant connect to OSX server over network in recovery mode

Hi guys.
First of all, thanks for any help you can give me.
I am running osx server on a mavericks mac mini on a home network. Attached to it I have a 1tb hard drive to which all the macs in my house use time machine to back up over my network and they are stored there.
I have just formatted one of my macs and want to restore it from these time machine backups that are on the osx server on my network.
When i enter recovery mode from boot (COMMAND R), it can see the "backups" on networks "Matts-Mac-Mini" but when i then click "CONNECT" it says "Enter your name and password for the server "Matts-Mac-Mini/local" so that Time Machine can access it.
It gives me a box with NAME and PASSWORD and a CONNECT button.
By DEFAULT the "NAME" it starts with is "root".......which I dont understand.
I have tried every single iteration of names and passwords I can think of but it still wont connect, it either shakes the box or gives an error saying "There was a problem connecting to the server "Matts-Mac-mini.local". Check the server name of IP address and then try again".
I have tried the log in details for the osx server, the login details for the mac im trying to connect from, used root as the username, tried capitals, no capitals, spaces no spaces etc. I am at a total loss and about to tear my hair out!!
Is there anyone able to give me any help with this please, I would be SO grateful!
Many thanks,
hardtofin

I think I have isolated the password, with a certain username and password the box never shakes and instead gives the error: "There was a problem connecting to the server "Matts-Mac-mini.local". Check the server name of IP address and then try again".
Are you able to offer any help with this? I dont see why i can't connect to it, if the imac can already see it?
Many thanks again,
hardtofin

Can I use OSX Server instead of Dropbox?

We are considering buying OSX Server. One basis for the purchase would be to replace Dropbox. We currently use Dropbox with local sync of folders, so all oru people work directly in folders that are synced to everyone else. Thus all docs are available locally all the time adn then they are available on everyones iPads, iPhones and Android phones. However a downside of that is that it takes space on the local hard drive, we can have conflicts where multiple people open a file.
Can someone please explain how remote users get access to the OSX server and the documents on it and if there is a "syncing" option similar to Dropbox?
Thanks
John

Answers:
#1 Yes, if set up correctly the server can be available to everyone with Internet access.
Typically this would be via a VPN connection. One caveat–only one VPN connection can be active from a particular LAN. In other words, if two computers on the same LAN want to connect via VPN to your server, this will not work (at least it wouldn't under earlier versions of OS X).
WebDAV is a possibility but I have not had good results when using WebDAV. Access is limited to apps that support WebDAV connections (such as Pages, Numbers, and Keynote). Even then it seemed a bit problematic.
#2 Any offline documents from the server must be managed manually. In other, you must manually copy them back and forth. As Linc mentioned above, OS X Server does not offer sync functionality.

Using Time Machine to back up to a Windows 2003 Server

I am trying to set up my Time Machine to back up to a windows 2003 server share. I have found some hacks on how to do so, however i am not successful.
What I have done so far:
TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1 in terminal, which got TM to see my shared drives, however, when i try to backup to my specific drive it gives me an error of not being able to write disk image. So i did:
hdiutil create -size 100g -fs HFS+J -volname “TimeMachine Hcomp” Hcomp_000045128a91.sparsebundle
using the appropriate mac address, volume name, and OSX computer name. However, when i run that in terminal, it comes back with a message saying it can only create one volume at a time.
I'm not quite sure where to go from here, I feel so close, but im stuck.
Also, on another side note, If I get this working, I would like to find a way where when TM is backing up data, it does not pop up the work bar window, I would prefer if it just worked in the background, and show it's status in the menu. I dont know if this is possible, But any suggestions would be of help
Thanks in advance!

AFreeman wrote:
Thanks for the response,
I understand the requirements for TM to work, and In the steps i've been trying, you'll see that the command 'hdiutil create -size 100g -fs HFS+J -volname “TimeMachine Hcomp” Hcomp_000045128a91.sparsebundle ' creates and HFS drive partition on my server share.
I guess i'm not looking for an answer as to why when i enter this command, I get a response of only one volume can be created at a time. Am I missing something in this command?
Thanks!
Since you are using a hack, and therefore in an unsupported area, I suppose anything possible.
You might browse around the TimeCapsule forum which more closely represents what you are doing than this forum
The TC forum is here:
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1253
It's possible that it may be a limitation of the system, hack or no hack.

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