That's good info John, thanks for posting your findings.
As for rsync backups, you might take a look at RsyncX for simple,
automated backups. I have been successfully using rsnapshot for
several months now <www.rsnapshot.org> which can do incremental,
rotating backups.
-Terry
On Dec 29, 2007, at 3:07 PM, John McAdams wrote:
I was able to move my calendar to a new host.
I used "tar cvf" to archive the old calendar. The archive was moved
using the Mac OS Finder to a USB drive. Then a Remote Access copy
to the new computer on a different network. I unpacked the archive
on the new host.
My calendar had already been established on the new host. I put the
old .ics files into my calendar/username folder. I ran "ls -l@" and
all the old xattrs were present. The username and group had changed
however, so I set them back to _calendar:_calendar. I refreshed the
calendar on the client and the appointments appeared.
This is great. Moving and restoring files is simple if all the
attributes are intact.
Next I'd like to set up some rsync scripts for backup. If anybody
has some sample scripts please post.
Best regards,
-- jmca
On Dec 20, 2007, at 10:23 AM, Cyrus Daboo wrote:
Hi John,
--On December 20, 2007 1:36:56 AM -0500 John McAdams
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Are you using OS X server with an OpenDirectory accounting system,
or the open source server with xml files for accounts?
OS X Server. The pre-production server was connected to an OD
Master. All
the user accounts have calendar enabled on the OD Master. We will
use the
same OD Master in production.
OK, in all likelihood you should not have a problem if you switch
the ip/hostname. However, you will probably need to restart that
machine and/or possibly re-bind it to the OD master if you used
authenticated binding.
Let me know if you run into any problems with this.
If using OS X and you change the hostname, you may need to re-
enable
calendaring for each user for the new host.
If using XML accounts, then you should not need to change anything.
--
Cyrus Daboo
I was wondering about the xattr on the files. When I run ls -l@ I
see
some webdav acls. I'd like to learn more about backing up and
restoring
the files and repairing their permissions in case something goes
wrong.
For backup/restore you definitely need to make sure any tool you
use is capable of backing up the xattrs. Most command line tools
have been enhanced to support that (tar for example).
WRT repairs - right now we do not have any specific tools for
doing that. You can manually list or change xattr's using the
xattr command line utility, though a recent change we did to the
server where we store compressed values in xattrs, will mean you
cannot easily do this. However, we do have our own version of the
xattr tool on theopen source site that includes an option to deal
with the compression.
Obviously we are keen to know what sort of admin tools are going
to be required in use, so if you run into a need for anything
please let us know. In the short term at least, we can probably
help out with a python script to fix things up if needed.
--
Cyrus Daboo
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