Reinstall OS and Server Preparations?

I use my Mountain Lion Mac Mini Server to provide limited services for about 25 users and about 15 groups. It's been giving me some inexplicable problems, wo I want to wipe the disks, the reinstall both the OS and Server.app. I'd like to back up the data I will need to fully restore those users and groups.
The items I have "on" in Server include:
DNS
FTP
Open Directory
Web
Wiki
I don't use Calendar or Mail.
Saving the FTP data seems simple enough.
How do I save the Users and Groups data? (I could re-do both if necessary. )
How do I save the Wiki sites data?
Thanks in advance for any help!

Hi Armax,
It is advisable to deactivate the Adobe CC products before uninstalling or re-installing windows and your correct Sign out will deactive the Adobe CC apps.
If you have Creative cloud 6 then also please deactivate those apps by clicking on Help>> Deactivate.
Ankit

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Reformat and Reinstall OS X Server - Keep Data Store

OS X Yosemite 10.10.1 on a Mac Mini Late 2012, 2.5 GHz, 16 GB. Server version 4 (14S333)
Running the following services:
Caching
Calendar
Contacts
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Time Machine
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I moved my service data and file shares to an external hard drive. When I format my startup hard drive, reinstall the operating system and server, what do I have to do to connect to the service data on my external hard drive? I imagine that I have to establish user accounts with the same credentials.
Really, what I am after is that I'm trying to get Profile Manager to work right with my iOS devices. And I have a wide variety of them (about 12 of them). None of them work. They get a profile installation failure. The research I've done seems to point to just reformat and reinstall. But in doing so, I don't want to lose the service data. Any help you can provide, please...I need reassurance that when I reinstall everything, I'll be able to have access to the data store again.
Thank you for your direction.

Hi,
Based on your succes of getting profile manager to work until now, I wouldn't recommend reconnecting any services to old data.
Export any data per service like calendar through a calendar client.app and my advice would be: Start over.
First of all, get a fixed IP adress, a FQDN available from the internet and DNS up and running and get it right. Check and recheck with the right tools in the server.app (top left corner, select your server and go to "overview") and from the terminal:
host your-ip-address
host your-domain-name
sudo changeip -checkhostname
When you have everything up and running, then continue with a validated external certificate or create a self signed certificate and start profilemanager.
Goodluck
Jeffrey

IMac mid 2007, 2.4 Ghz, 800 MHz... Grey screen only, running OS 10.5.8. Tried reinstalling, restoring, and resetting but to no avail. Possible to install OS 10.6 and get it to boot?

Try to boot and only getGrey screen, sometimes with the globe f
Asking, sometimes not.
I am running OS 10.5.8. Tried reinstalling, restoring, and resetting both with installation disc and without, but to no avail.
I recently upgraded from 1GB memory to 4 GB. It ran great for a couple of weeks, when I eventually powered it off, it would not come back. With installation disc, I did get to the utilities and tried repair and even reinstall original OS (several updates down from 10.5.8). At one point, I was able to restore a previous session, but it only lasted for about 3 days until I powered it off again, then back to square 1. I have verified the Macintosh HD disc and repaired it, I have reset everything I can find that might need resetting... Still nothing.
SO, is it toast, or is it possible to install OS 10.6 and get it to boot?

Erase the drive then install OS X:
Drive Partition and Format
1. Boot from your OS X Installer Disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu.
If you are preparing an external or a non-startup drive, then open Disk Utility in your Utilities folder.
2. After DU loads select your hard drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. Note the SMART status of the drive in DU's status area. If it does not say "Verified" then the drive is failing or has failed and will need replacing. SMART info will not be reported on external drives. Otherwise, click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.
3. Under the Volume Scheme heading set the number of partitions from the drop down menu to one. Click on the Options button, set the partition scheme to GUID then click on the OK button. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Apply button and wait until the process has completed.
4. Select the volume you just created (this is the sub-entry under the drive entry) from the left side list. Click on the Erase tab in the DU main window.
5. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Security button, check the button for Zero Data and click on OK to return to the Erase window.
6. Click on the Erase button. The format process can take up to several hours depending upon the drive size.
If this doesn't work then the drive is probably bad or some of the new RAM you installed is marginally defective.

How do I reinstall Snow Leopard Server on a Mac Mini Server 2010?

How do I reinstall Snow Leopard Server on a Mac Mini Server 2010? I have already attached a Mac Superdrive and tried to download, but the buttons at the bottom of the dialog screen are greyed out.

Not sure where you're getting tangled here or how much you know about OS X Server 10.6, so...
AFAIK, Snow Leopard Server wasm't available as a download, it was a separate DVD distribution.
Unlike more recent versions of OS X Server, the 10.6 server distributions were usually standalone DVD disks, as well.
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We are using a Mac mini Server (mid 2010) 2.66 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4GB 1067MHz DDR3, NVIDIA GeForce 320M 256MB machine. There are 2 500GB hard disks which have each been partitioned into 2 separate logical disks of 250GB each (in total 4 logical 250GB disks).
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After experiencing some issues with an iCloud password change and App Store failing to load, we decided to try updating to Mavericks. Upon update we were prompted to update the Server app to Mavericks version (Server app 3.2.1), this seemed to work to begin with, preserving file sharing and network user records and permissions, however we soon started to experience issues with permissions and Time Machine. We noticed that the Open Directory set up to store our network users was no longer available in the Server app and so decided to erase one of the alternate partitions and perform a clean install of Mavericks and Server app 3.2.1. This proved to produce the same issues with Time Machine permissions and also difficulties with the shared folder permissions.
Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks

Hi Linc,
Thanks for the reply.
The Time Machine folders shown are from the Server app Storage tab which shows all connected hard drives. I haven't set TM drives up to be shared and hopefully the following screenshots will illustrate the current setup. This setup was created from a clean install of all involved software i.e. drives were erased and setup from scratch and the TM drives were simply connected and TM took control from there.
As you can see from these screenshots, when viewing the permissions through the Server app, there appears to be an extra user when compared to the OS Get Info window.
After leaving TM to its own devices over the weekend, I was greeted with a 'preparing backup' message this morning(Mon 13th October), with a last backup completed on Sat 11th October at 15:19:16. Stopping this backup and starting a manual backup has now resulted in a new, never before experienced error message stating that the backup disks can not be found:
Console reports:
I must re-iterate, the disk was erased and simply connected and Time Machine did its thing. Now as 'admin' it is clear that the folders created by TM do not have permissions so that I can simply view them in Finder, but does this directly affect TMs ability to access folders it has created itself?
One useful bit of information I seem to have neglected is that the erased TM drive is encrypted, however the password was entered when the drive was connected to the machine and there has been no prompt thereafter.
Please help. Only other comment I can make is that before the update to Mavericks and Server app 3.2.1, none of this was a problem.

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I upgraded from Dreamweaver CS4 to CS6. but now when I want to upload I get "an TFP error occured - cannot make connection to host". I spent hours with the host technician and we cant find the error. I reinstalled DW4 and it connects to host perfectly. Anyone else seen this problem?
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System.Data.SqlServerCe.SqlCeException (0x80004005): Native components of SQL Server Compact engine are not loaded. Please reinstall Microsoft SQL Server Compact.

Hi
I have followed http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms173298(v=sql.110).aspx to support private deployment for my application in anycpu mode.
Though its working fine on several XP and Windows 7 , on on particular XP machine , I get this
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I've had an awful experience going from snow leopard server to lion server using the migration instructions and assistant. So I am starting fresh again on a new Mac Mini server I've only had for a week.
How do I reinstall Lion Server on the MacMini server when it came with Lion server and it's not in my app store?
I noticed that COMMAND + R gives me the internet recovery, but no the built in recovery. Why is that?
After agreeing to run the Lion installer through the internet recovery, I am told that features such as FileVault and Recovery mode aren't supported on my System disk (which is a mirrored set from the installed 500 GB drives) and these features will not be available because I am installing Lion (client) on the drive (which is necessary first before installing Server.app). No Recovery mode. What does this mean and why not.
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This all started because the migration didn't make my mini server an open directory master like the snow leopard server was. I decided to start over and do i manually.
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Reboot with Command + R. That will start your mini from the recovery partition. Once in recovery mode, use disk utility to erase your disk.
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