[Casper] migration to leopard

[Thomas Larkin]

Well all the users are gone, so I do have the ability to take the ODM
offline for a while.  One advantage of working for a school system is
that all your users are gone for 2.5 months over the summer.



Thomas Larkin
TIS Department
KCKPS USD500
tlarki at kckps.org
cell:  913-449-7589
office:  913-627-0351
>>> Steve Wood <swood at integerdallas.com> 05/29/08 1:36 PM >>>
This is something I am working on as well, and I would strongly  
suggest you test before you make the jump, and make sure you have a  
good image of your system first.

One of the best ways I have heard for doing this is to promote a  
replica, wipe and install your current master, make it a replica of  
the promoted box, then promote that new Leopard server.  Make sense?

I would highly suggest getting a second drive for the server, imaging  
your current system to that using SuperDuper, and then doing your  
upgrade on that second drive.  That way you can roll back easily.  And  
definitely test in a sandbox if you can.

Steve Wood
Director, Information Technology
swood at integerdallas.com

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On May 29, 2008, at 1:09 PM, Thomas Larkin wrote:

> This is not a specific question to Casper, but thought I would ask  
> some
> of you since you all may have already done this.
>
> I need to migrate our Tiger servers to Leopard servers, and this is  
> all
> because we need Leopard clients.  Plus we will be ordering some new
> machines that will come preinstalled with Leopard.
>
> I went into server admin and backed up the ODM's LDAP by making a back
> up via server admin application on the directory services tab.
>
> Can I just now wipe and install Leopard, mimic IP and DNS settings  
> then
> import that LDAP and be done with it?  Is it really that easy?
>
> Thomas Larkin
> TIS Department
> KCKPS USD500
> tlarki at kckps.org
> cell:  913-449-7589
> office:  913-627-0351
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