[Casper] migration to leopard

[Jeremy Matthews]

Per Apple IT & Education, I've always been told to:

1) Backup everything important on the test system or related  
production services (archive the OD master)
2) Force a replication event immediately before upgrading
3) Upgrade the MASTER and test - if it fails you can then promote a  
replica

This way, hopefully you're testing OD-based services....but then  
again, I usually do this AFTER a full backup and AFTER testing with a  
separate "skeleton" environment.
It saved me from losing a LOT of information when we upgraded some  
10.4.11 server to 10.5.0 (patched to 10.5.2) - most of our LDAP  
records simply dropped out.
Would've been a nightmare...

-j
ACHDS/ACTC/ACSA 10.3/10.4
ACSP/ACTC 10.5


On May 29, 2008, at 2:36 PM, casper-request at list.jamfsoftware.com wrote:

> 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?