SL Upgrade + Active Directory + Time Machine

Hi all,
We are running our Mac's in a Active Directory (AD) environment. Some users are using time machine backups and we are planning on doing upgrades to snow leopard for these users, and then restoring there account profiles (which are AD accounts) to put there information back on the system. Have any of you have experience with this, any hang ups, problems or concerns. I did read that when restoring the user account, you can not be logged into that account. But was wondering if I could log in to create the base profile, log out and into a local admin account and restore that user with no problems. Thanks in advance for your help.

is this over kill?
it usually is. but if you want you can do it that way. do it just as you described in your first post. restoring a whole home directory should only be done when logged in as a different user. again, no experience with AD here, but it works without issues on standalone machines and I don't see why it should create problems in your situation.

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I started by checking whether binding was still valid. It was not. So I attempt to unbind, and there get an "Active Directory Time Error." It appears that usually, this means that the time on the client and the time reported by the AD server are out of sync. But they're not. I can force unbind, and on attempting to rebind, I get the time error again.
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$ sudo killall -USR1 DirectoryService
(then restart)
This didn't happen all at once, the issue has been popping up in one 10.6 machine after another. (We also have a number of 10.8 and 10.9 machines, which so far seem unaffected.)
Does anyone have any inkling what factors could be causing this to keep happening?

Not sure how you've confirmed that the times are not skewed; I'd (still) look for a problem with the ntp servers (one ntp server with a rogue time within a pool can play havoc with a network, for instance), and whether the local ntp clients are all reporting as being locked. See the ntpdc -c peers command, among other commands.

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before the upgrade, i could open time machine without the need for having the back up disk plugged in.

Ok. I got it to work, sort of....
As I mentioned before I tried the "disk password" and the "Time capsule Password" options to see if I can start the back up again or start a new backup. Neither worked. So I tried the firmware down grade, but like you said that did not work. I then decided to try the "Account password" option and I have never used this option before becasue it states that if there is data on the drive it would not be acessable after creating an account. Since I wiped out the disk that was nno problem. When I created the new account and choose the drive it asked for the user name and password. I entered the info for the new account I just created(FYI this has nothing to do with your login username and password), bingo! It worked!
Now I have two partitions on the TC disk. The old one and now the new account. I am guessing this is to be used if I have multiple computers, which I don't.
I any case, I am going to wipe out everything again and try again to do a backup the way I had it before.

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Hi,
Since I upgraded to Mavericks, Time Machine no longer finds the Time Capsule Disk on my network.
Five minutes before upgrading it however performed successfully a last backup.
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My current workaround is to stop the Mac getting its time from the server, changing the clock by a couple of seconds, and then re-binding. This generally works. The odd ones that this doesn't work on, or that fall off the domain again within 24 hours, I've removed from AD and have given local logins to for now. I'm getting to the point where I just want to scrap AD integration and get every machine locally authenticating!
Our AD guys swear there have been no patches or changes on their end. I am equally certain there have been no changes to the Macs. So what could it be???

Thank you, this has (again, indirectly) solved the problem. I had asked out network administrator to check the time on both domain controllers a couple of weeks ago when the issue started. He had only checked the primary, assuming that the second DC was syncing time with that. Your helpful post prompted me to go check it myself and found a 6 minute difference between the two. Manually resetting the second DC to the same time as the first fixed the problem.
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Upgrade HDD using Time Machine, but no Snow Leopard DVD, only Leopard installation DVD = kernel error on startup

Hi guys and girls.
Background
I have a MacBook Pro (March 2009 vintage). It was loaded with OS X Leopard on a 250GB HDD. When Snow Leopard was released, I upgraded using a DVD bought from Apple. In time, I added an external USB HDD to use for Time Machine Backups. I am now, however, knocking up against the capacity limit of the original hard drive.
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So far I have tried:
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Simplest thing would be to buy the retail SL installation disc ($20 USD) and use it to do the migration. There might be an issue trying to use a SL TM version with Leopard.

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Basically it says that the image already exists and cannot do a new security copy. What do I do? Everything else is ok. Do I litteraly delete what I had. I wouldn't really want to do that. Any ideas?
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It seems that the problem has fixed itself. So I assume there was an issue with the connection to the drive or something. I just ran Time Machine with no error messages. So all good!
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UPGRADE Active Directory Authentication WebService(ADAWS).

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Looking through this and other sites, I see lots of people complaining about this with both Lion and Snow Leopard - but no explanations about why it happens.
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