On 5 Mar 2013, at 21:40, Glyph <gl...@twistedmatrix.com> wrote: > On Mar 5, 2013, at 1:35 AM, Daniele Procida <proc...@cf.ac.uk> wrote: > >> [Sorry, I didn't notice this had gone to the user rather than the list] >> >> On 5 Mar 2013, at 03:38, Glyph <gl...@twistedmatrix.com> wrote: >> >>> On Mar 3, 2013, at 2:43 PM, Daniele Procida <proc...@cf.ac.uk> wrote: >>> >>>> I've had a calendar server running happily for years with no problems. >>>> Recently - since restoring my virtual server - it has stopped working. >>> >>> What kind of virtual server? What version of Calendar Server? >> >> It's an ancient version of Debian, 3.2.35, running an old version of >> calendar server (I can't work out how to get it to tell me which one). > > OK. It looks like you're using a version of Calendar Server old enough that > it uses the file system to store calendar events. That's _super_ old, and > it's not a branch which will ever receive bug-fixes again. I'm afraid you'll > really need to upgrade. The good news is that the new version is a lot > easier to manage, in a variety of ways. > > One such way is that it's easier to make backups, because the data store is > just a database (Postgres, or Oracle, with the possibility for you to > implement your own SQL dialect if you like) plus some filesystem stuff for > attachments. If you're upgrading a Calendar Server running on Linux from a > filesystem version, be _very_ careful how you make your backups: you need to > make sure to preserve all extended filesystem attributes. Many versions of > tar, rsync, etc, that are shipped with Linux distributions won't do this by > default, so be sure that you specify any options that are necessary to > preserve that informaiton.
Well, I am pretty sure that I have fallen foul of just the kind of xattr issue you hint at. I've tried running contrib/tools/fix_calendar to fix them, but that doesn't seem to have helped (I also had to edit fix_calendar, to use "user." as a prefix rather than "WebDAV:" - see http://trac.calendarserver.org/ticket/337). My fix is the one I found on the web, which I'd forgotten about: https://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/calendarserver-users/2010-August/001642.html Thanks for the input, Daniele -- Daniele Procida Web Officer Cardiff University School of Medicine Tel.: +44 29 2074 2144 _______________________________________________ calendarserver-users mailing list calendarserver-users@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/calendarserver-users
