Running Lion Server on a FCP Machine?

Is it a sin to run Mac OS X Lion Server on a machine I purchased to do video editing with? If you don't want to address the normative question, can you tell me how much RAM it takes to run Lion Server? I have 16 GBs, purchased for motion graphics. I don't do a lot of motion graphics, but it's good to have the RAM and the processing power all together when you need it.
Thanks for your input!

>I assumed that Prem Pro and After Effects will run both 32 and 64 bit OS.
No, 64bit only... see below
Adobe's MINimums http://www.adobe.com/products/premiere/tech-specs.html
-Programs won't display if they will not install on your computer
-http://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/kb/all-apps-displayed-aam.html

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Can you Run Lion server on iMac and use monitor for another computer

With lion server you don't need a monitor and I figure why buy a mac mini when i could by a 27" imac and use it as a display and a mac mini running lion server.
I have been going over the scenarios and am trying to decide if I should buy the TB display or a second 27" imac. Eventually I will have 3 27" displays... but I want to run Lion Server off of one of the imacs... and use the display with the other imac.
do you know if it is possible to use the display of the imac for a mbp or another imac while running an operating system (lion Server) on the computer at the same time.
not sure if I made my self clear there or not.
Ryan

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2) Activated iCal on the server preference window (ical: on)
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Hi Everyone,
I am usually okay with computers however something has been baffling me for a while now!
We have recently updated our server from an ageing Tiger server to a Lion server. (Mac Mini Server)
We have a suite of Mac minis that are running 10.7.4 and have no trouble connecting to the server in fact they sign a relatively quickly.
We also have a set of MacBooks that are currently all updated to Snow Leopard (10.6)
The issue we are having is with those MacBooks:
When the user attempts to access their network share from any of those MacBooks running Snow Leopard the login works however it can take up to 2 min to login. This does happen over the wireless network, however I have also checked it by plugging them in with an ethernet cable and they exhibit the same behaviour.
This is obviously quite frustrating for all the people using the MacBooks.
I got strange feeling that the check box somewhere that I've missed.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Mac Mini 2011 - 2.3Ghz - 2GB Ram running Lion Server

Hi guys.
I’m in a processof deciding whether to buy or not a mac mini.
Since the$599 version comes with Lion, 2.3 GHz i5 and 2GB of ram, is there any problemto upgrade from Lion to Lion Server? Or the server is reserved to the Mac MiniServer.
Since Ialready own one Apple Time Capsule, do you see any inconvenience to put’ it ontop.
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Hello, see how many of these you can answer...
See if the Disk is issuing any S.M.A.R.T errors in Disk Utility...
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH7029
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How much RAM & free space do you have also, click on the Memory & Disk Usage Tabs.
Open Console in Utilities & see if there are any clues or repeating messages when this happens.
In the Memory tab of Activity Monitor, are there a lot of Pageouts?
Safe Boot , (holding Shift key down at bootup), use Disk Utility from there to Repair Permissions, test if things work OK in Safe Mode.
Then move these files to the Desktop for now...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.systempreferences.plist
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.desktop.plist
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.recentitems.plist
Reboot & test.
PS. Safe boot may stay on the gray radian for a long time, let it go, it's trying to repair the Hard Drive.

Will Mountain Lion run on my mac mini running lion server?

I like the new features of Mountain Lion and I am not utilizing the "server" functions of lion. Will the new os effect the mini's operation?

Which Mini exactly, some cannot use 10.8?
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Can you run Lion os and Lion Server os on the same Mac mini?

I'm a windows convert to Mac and I'm interested in running a standard Lion Client, but at the same time running Lion Server on the same Mac Mini (Server Edition). My needs for the Lion Server OS is to handle e-mail, a Web Site, and file sharing between the server to a secondary PC, iPad, and iPhone. But at the same time I wish to dive into the Mac (Apple) experience. I just wish to be able to do this on the same machine.
As a secondary question, is it possible to merge two different iTune Accounts into one? Is it possible to share items purchased on one iTunes account with an iPad that is tied to a different iTunes Account?

1. Yes, but you'll need separate partitions for each OS, or run the client OS in emulation.
2. It isn't possible to combine the accounts, but a single iTunes library can contain content from multiple iTunes Store accounts.
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How to reinstall on client from Lion Server Time Machine backup?

I have a Mac Mini running Lion Server and a black MacBook running Lion. I recently needed to to perform a format and reinstall of the MacBook, so I used the MacBook's Recovery HD partition and reinstalled Lion. I then went back to Recovery HD to reinstall apps from my Time Machine backup' which is managed by the Lion Server Mac Mini. On first attempt, I saw the right files, but in the process it hung. I recently tried to do it again, and now it claims that there are no backups found.
My suspicion is that as this is a Lion Server managed backup, it bundles the server backup and the MacBook backup in the same bundle. Revovery HD looks for the latest compete bundle, then finds the matching backup for the MacBook. However, if the Mini is continuing backups of its own, the more recent bundle backups only have mini info, not the MackBook, hence they "disappeared".
I can see older backups when I look at the backup drive, so I suspect that my MacBook files are still there.
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One partition 2.5TB will be my new Time Machine Backups and the other 2.5TB for iTunes Library so I never have to worry about this again.
Your worry now is what will you do when the single hard drive containing both your library and its backup makes a screeching sound one day and is toast, or get stolen?
from a YouTube video
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Best Setup for Lion Server Time Machine Backup with Drobo?

I've been thinking about this a lot, yet I don't feel I have a good solution for this, so I'm going to throw it out to the community.
I have a home server setup using a Mac Mini running Lion Server 10.7.2 with a Firewire 800 Drobo attached. The Drobo is used for both Time Machine backups and files. I also have a Powerbook G4 running Leopard and a MacBook 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo with Lion 10.7.2 which connect to the Server and the Drobo wirelessly thorugh an Airport Extreme.
I want to use Time Machine to have all of my computers back up to the server & Drobo, but realize there are several ways to go, each with their pluses and minuses:
Server Time Machine Backup:
+ Centralizes backup process, rules, and other elements
+ Currently Mac Mini is backing up to the Drobo correctly using this process
+ Have setup size limit on Server backup so that it does not eat up file space
- Would combine laptop backups with server backup into one sparse image: this would lead to the computer with the largest backup needs taking up too much space
Client-Driven Time Machine Backup:
+ Allows for customization of backup processes by computer
+ Can setup specific space requirements for each computer
+ Backups are separate from each other
- Wireless backup from laptops to Drobo is not functioning currently
Any thoughts or experiences on how best to set this up? I tend to do most of my work on the MacBook, hence I am concerned about it having it's backup space eaten up by the server, but that may be more of a theoretical issue than a real one.
Thanks in advance for your help!

Well I'm not sure if I am following you but I will explain how I set mine up. When I got the Drobo I inserted 2 drives and selected the highest available volume I could (16TB). My drives are 4 TB each and I knew I would soon add 2 more. Then Drobo did its thing and prepared these drives. The Drobo shows up on my mini desktop as an external drive. When I log into my server from my other computer I can see the mini server volume and the Drobo volume. I can access each no problem. They act as regular volumes. Soon after I added the second two drives and everything stayed the same meaning I could still see and access the Drobo on the desktop of my mini. So it sounds like you used the Drobo dashboard to partition yours for two volumes? Are they both showing on the desktop?
"Maybe the Drobo needs to be mounted on the desktop to be considered AFP feature enabled." I could be wrong and hopefully someone will correct me but I think the Drobo (or volumes) have to be mounted on the desktop to work with AFP.

Lion Server Time Machine sparsebundles

Subject indicates where I think my problem lies, but for background:
MacBook Pro got bit by Thunderbolt firmware upgrade snafu last week. Contacted Apple Store the next morning, saw Genius at 11:00. Concuded hardware and firmware were OK and because I had a Time Machine backup less than an hour old I gave permission to install a fresh 10.7.3 image on my bare metal.
Got home and booted Command-R. Happily saw my Time Machine shares on Mac Mini Server running Lion Server 10.7.4. Yes, "shares." A Backup and Backup-1.
As a Lion Server novice I found a tip here to "defaults write /private/var/db/dslocal/nodes/Default/sharepoints/Backups timeMachineBackup '(1)' to make my shared mountpoint work with Time Machine over the network. Perhaps thats how one does it if one doesn't have Server. I later found the Time Machine panel in Server and turning that on gave me a Backups-1 share as well.
So back with Command-R my MacBook Pro saw both the Backups and Backups-1, I navigated to Backups and it saw its previous Time Machine archive. I started a bare metal restore and happily went to bed. Next morning found the restore stopped at about 20% of the progress bar and message instructing me to reboot the computer. Repeated, same results.
Back to Command-R I reinstalled a new copy of Lion from Apple over the internet. Did minimal configuration until I could get into Time Machine and try to manually pull files. Again it quit unexpectedly no matter holding the Option key to Verify Backups passed.
So back to the Mac Mini Server I turn off Sharing from System Preferences and Time Machine from Server. The /private/var/db/dslocal/nodes/Default/sharepoints/Backups file disappears when Server Time Machine is turned off.
I have attempted to move "David Kelly's MacBook Pro.sparsebundle" from "/Volumes/Macintosh HD2/Backups" to "/Volumes/Macintosh HD2/Shared Items/Backups" where Server Time Machine seems to expect it. The problem now is that the MacBook Pro doesn't see this Time Machine archive in that location, or see it at all.
I have performed the Disk Utility verify tasks listed in the Time Machine FAQ with no errors found or repaired.
I have seen a -6584 error this week but don't remember exactly when: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3123920?start=0&tstart=0
How can I get the sparsebundle back under Time Machine Server?

Finally figured it out on my own 2 weeks later.
You have to open the Lion Server app and then turn on Time Machine on the server.
It will then ask what disk you want to use, which in my case was an external 2tb USB.
My confusion was that this is not they way you had to do it on Snow Leopard Server.
On SLS, I never used Time Machine, but had to partition my external disk individually for each user. e.g. 2tb disk was partioned into 4 separate volumes. This was necessary to keep one user's Time Machine backup from taking up the whole disk and not leaving room for the other users.
You then setup these partitions as Time Machine Sharepoint which would then show up as a choice on the users machine under Time Machine preferences, select disks.
Therefore, under SLS, a user could select from any number of partions to backup to on the server. On Lion Server, it appears you do not have a choice and can only backup to the one disk you selected on the Server App.
At the risk of carrying on a conversation with myself online, my concern is now about limiting the size of the individual user's sparse bundle to again keep one user from taking up the entire disk for their Time Machine. I guess that is another fight for another day.

How to find backup on Lion Server time machine backup?

I have a MacBook laptop running Lion that has gotten automated Time Machine network backups by my Mac Mini running Lion Server. Had to do a reformat of the laptop and when I used Recovery HD from the laptop to find the laptop backup files on the server, I can't find them. I can find the server backup file, and the network version of time machine may bundle the laptop backup and mini backup in that file, but Recovery HD claims there are no valid backups.
Am I doing this the wrong way? Any help?

Just found it here:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/19152432#19152432
And it worked.
zeke

OSStatus 5 when trying to use Lion Server as time machine

I've set two volumes on hard disk 2 of the mac mini server with snow leopard server (now running lion server).
When I point my new MacBook Air at the time machine the Lion Server is serving which is simply displayed as Time Machine on server1.voigtstr.com, I authenticate (both server and laptop share the same username and password) and then I get
Time Machine can't access the backup disk "Time Machine"
The operation couldn't be completed. (OSStatus error 5.)
What needs to change at either the server or client side?
thoughts so far were that the time machine volume was case sensitive and the laptop was not, so I reformatted the server volume to be not case sensitive.
Any other thoughts?
When I choose "Do Not Backup" the Time Machine system prefs applet is left in a state of "Preparing Disk". Is that likely to finish in multiple hours? Or is it just in a hung state?
Cheers
Voigtstr!

I had the same problem.
Time machine on my server, updated from Lion to Mountain Lion.
Fixed it by:
(To be completely safe, always start by backing up to a extra external hard drive, if you can.)
On the Machine that is your Server
I went to (Server>Services>Time Machine). My Time Mahine backup folder was there.
Open a Finder window and follow the path to your backup folder
When I checked on the backup drive folder it didn't exist.
In Finder use "New folder" and recreate the directory folder as shown in (Server>Services>Time Machine) eg. Volumes/TM folder/Shared Items/Backups.
Go to the Server>Services>File Sharing. Check that the Master folder (ie. TM folder)you are using for your time machine is shared. Double click on it and check that the account you use to connect to the server has "Read & Write" access.
Open the Server Panel, under Services >go to "Time Machine" and turn off the Time Machine. (Server>Services>Time Machine)
Select the current folder and remove "-" the folder currently showing.
Then add "+" the newly recreated folder
Go back to Server>Services>Time Machine
Then turn on the Time Machine
Then try to connect your macbook to the Time Machine server again
If you get to step 3 and find the folder is there then just skip step 4 and do the rest to reset it.
It may not connect your machine to it's previous TM folder so before continuing on to step 5, mark that by ctrl+click>Label> any colour. You can then go back later when you have a couple of up to date backups in the new folder and delete the old on for more space.

Time machine cannot find volume, error-1. Where can I fine solution for this error? Have latest updates for Airport and TM, running Lion.

Time machine cannot find volume, error-1. Where can I fine solution for this error? Have latest updates for Airport Utility and TM, running Lion.

See #C17 in Time Machine - Troubleshooting.

Time Machine: Lion vs. Lion Server... Lion Server breaks existing function?

Hello, I hope someone can point me in the right direction,
I recently upgraded (clean install) all of my machines to Lion. I decided to "start over" with a new time machine setup where each computer would have its own partition on the external drive. I hooked this drive up to a mac mini I had and connected all the other machines to it via the LAN and everything went well for a few days... until I tried to be clever. I decided to try Lion Server on the mini. After I added Server (which just seems to be a bunch of admin utils) and rebooted, my time machine setup stopped working. I am now getting the dreaded "the network backup disk does not support the required AFP features" (specifically TM Lock Stealing). From the client log:
8/7/11 9:31:28.531 PM com.apple.backupd: Starting standard backup
8/7/11 9:31:28.548 PM com.apple.backupd: Network destination already mounted at: /Volumes/Yggdrasil TM
8/7/11 9:31:43.988 PM com.apple.backupd: Destination /Volumes/Yggdrasil TM does not support TM Lock Stealing
8/7/11 9:31:54.000 PM com.apple.backupd: Backup failed with error: 45
Also, that volume doesn't appear anymore in the "Select Disk" dialog of the client. The volume does appear in sharing and I can copy files to/from it via Finder on the client.
Now, I went in to Lion Server and enabled "Time Machine" and set the "backup destination" to the same volume. That works fine. I can select that location and backups from my client go with no problem. That makes me think this is an arcane configuration issue... how can I get Tiger Server (or maybe it's on the client end) to recognize that the exact same disk/partition, just a different Folder is ok to save TIme Machine backups?
In other words... One share: "Yggdrasil TM" is at the root of a partition, which used to work for Time Machine in Lion prior to Server. Another share, "Backups" is inside "Yggdrasil TM" (/Volumes/Yggdrasil TM/Shared Items/Backups on the mini server). Any ideas?
I did notice that /Volumes/Yggdrasil TM/Shared Items/Backups has a .com.apple.timemachine.supported file in it, but it still didn't work after I "sudo cp -p" that file into where my older sparsebundle was.
I even went so far as to double check permissions and ACLs for both directories as being the same:
$ ls -ldae /Volumes/Yggdrasil\ TM/ /Volumes/Yggdrasil\ TM/Shared\ Items/Backups/
drwxrwxrwx+ 10 root staff 408 Aug 8 00:37 /Volumes/Yggdrasil TM/
0: group:com.apple.access_backup allow list,add_file,search,add_subdirectory,delete_child
1: user:_spotlight allow list,search,file_inherit,directory_inherit,only_inherit
drwxrwxrwx+ 5 root staff 170 Aug 8 00:32 /Volumes/Yggdrasil TM/Shared Items/Backups/
0: group:com.apple.access_backup allow list,add_file,search,add_subdirectory,delete_child
1: user:_spotlight inherited allow list,search,file_inherit,directory_inherit
I also played around with the /usr/sbin/sharing command, but that doesn't seem to have any real settings to do with this.
I guess I'm stumped, any suggestions before I restore the mini from time machine and give up Lion Server as a lost cause?
Thanks

Hi, it's been a while, but what I think I did was when I enabled the "real" Lion Time Machine Backups location, it created a sharepoint called Backups.plist. I looked at what was set in there to see if there was anything likely with this command
sudo defaults read /private/var/db/dslocal/nodes/Default/sharepoints/Backups.plist
and I found this bit, which looked interesting
timeMachineBackup = (
1
so, I figured I'd try it in the other plist files where I really wanted the backups as I was basically stumped. Luckily for me, it worked.
As for how I figured out where the sharepoint plist files were... I have a long name and I got tired of seeing the mounts show up as "MyFirstName MyLastName's Public Folde" (note truncation) on all my macs, so I went looking for those files some time ago. :-)
Hope that helps.

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