[tomlawton]

Now that was just a stroke of genius!! If only I’d thought of that [i]before[/i] I made the swap…

However, the technique is crafty enough that maybe I could have a go at it, exporting the current info, hunting down FQDNs and making it all nice before reloading…

Shame Apple didn’t think of putting such a useful tip in the 10.5 manuals- and better still provide a utility to make the FQDN changes too! Time to make an OD backup and get grepping….

Cheers,
Tom

[tomlawton]

Admittedly a crafty approach; just 2 teeny problems… –

It leaves the new machine with the old machine’s IP address. Past experience (in 10.4) showed me that running changip resulted in needing a demote-promote, with loss of passwords… 😥

My servers are in Surrey, UK, and I’m on sabbatical in Colorado, USA, for a year- so hooking up external drives is a bit of a pain 😉

I should probably have been more pragmatic at the outset, and let the new server take over the old server’s IP address; however, I wanted to be “honest” and clearly move to a new server, plus, since the old server was running the VPN I was working through, and had the only hole in the University’s firewall… Well, you can imagine how cautious I have to be, working 5000 miles remotely!!

[tomlawton]

Hi –

Sorry- another “me too” post! Did you ever get a nice resolution to this…?

Similar story- I got a new Xserve, on a new IP, updated to 10.5.6, promoted new, imported old Xserve’s OD backup, demoted old, upgraded old 10.4.11 to 10.5.6, made old a replica of new. All good, except, of course, no kerberos now…
The update log warned me it wasn’t happy at the time:-

[quote] 2009-01-31 19:43:05 +0000 – Warning: The domain in the backup file does not match the domain in the current LDAP configuration.
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It doesn’t seem to matter hugely, as I don’t (think I) rely on kerberisation of any services… But what’s irritating is kerberos is still trying to start on “old” Xserve, and whinging in the log the whole time…

Any help (other than reformat-reinstall/ demote-promote/ blow away passwords…!) much appreciated…

Cheers
Tom

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