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Online clones provide the fastest possible restore, and are also easy and inexpensive. They also help with system updates; if an update goes bad, you can just reboot from a clone and move on.

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Brilliant! The logs almost always have the answer in them.

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So there’s nothing in /var/log/system.log that says “apache”? Crank up the log level and try again.

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What was in the logs? How did you fix it?

I had to symlink httpd to apache2 in a couple places after my upgrade, but that was pretty clearly spelled out in the logs.

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What’s in the logs? Generally apache is pretty good about pinpointing the problem if you read the logs.

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Generally for the offsite, the client has a “server” (can be any computer) setup at another location like a branch office or even the owner’s house, and backups are pushed there.

Another great way to do offsite with Crashplan Pro is to colo an iSCSI RAID unit and backup to it. Since the app encrypts the data prior to sending it, it’s safe across the wire.

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I guess you could use it for that, but mostly it’s for managing servers. Download, install it, and see.

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Why don’t you just use Webmin? It’s great for managing a lot of FOSS.

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The wiki/blog is a fragile nightmare. Do yourself a favor and setup a real wiki, like Dekiwiki or Twiki etc, (in a VM is great) and be done with it. They have LDAP plugins so you can tie them into the OD/AD quite easily. You can have it setup and working fast, and not have it break easily like the pre-alpha OS X Server wiki.

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The wiki/blog is a fragile nightmare. Do yourself a favor and setup a real wiki, like Dekiwiki or Twiki etc, and be done with it. They have LDAP plugins so you can tie them into the OD/AD.

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While the Disk Utility RAID is nice to have, I find SoftRAID to be much easier to deal with and far more reliable. It’s easily worth the small price.

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Well you sure don’t want to use both Server Admin and Webmin/CLI to manage the same service. SA tends to stomp stupidly on changes made by the other methods. It’s exceptionally poor with apache2. I found that it wrote directives that prevented apache2 from starting.

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Often with the open source stuff, it’s far better to use CLI or something like Webmin to configure it. Server Admin just doesn’t work.

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Did you turn on RTSP aka Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol on the switch? That’s required for using trunks.

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Uh, are you going to be forced to upgrade? Is your copy of Leopard suddenly going to disappear when Snow Leopard comes out?

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