[Casper] migration to leopard

[Thomas Larkin]

Well, I tested it on a Mac mini today and it all worked.  I got summer
school the next two weeks actually, and I forgot about that earlier,
hehe, glad I remembered.  During July there are practically zero mac
users at all so I will take it down first week of july.  That gives me a
few weeks to test it out on my Mini as well then create an image as
well.

Thomas Larkin
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>>> "Leacy, Miles (US)" <Miles.Leacy at PoloRalphLauren.com> 05/29/08 3:40
PM >>>
In that case, assuming you have replica(s),  I'd take the ODM offline. 
Then choose a replica, wipe it, and build your new Leopard ODM from
scratch.  Once you have it working and configured the way you want it,
you could boot your Tiger ODM (off the network), export your users, then
import them into your Leopard ODM.

Wow, no clients.  I miss academia.

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From: casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com
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To: swood at integerdallas.com <swood at integerdallas.com>
Cc: casper at list.jamfsoftware.com <casper at list.jamfsoftware.com>
Sent: Thu May 29 16:09:59 2008
Subject: Re: [Casper] migration to leopard

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
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>>> 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
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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
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> tlarki at kckps.org
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