Hugh,
Sounds like a clean install may be your quickest solution. You can dump the
mysql databases that contain all your mysql users and your data using the
mysqldump utility. It is very easy to use and I would look at the mysql
documentation on how to dump / restore a mysql database:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/
What other configuration info are you going to loose? If you do not have too
many users in the netinfo db then it will probably be easier just to
recreate them. You can backup all your apache, and other service config
files using the root account. One thing you may want to do is boot the
server in firewire mode and then rsync the whole drive to a backup location.
Then you can simply grab config files as needed to restore them.
http://archive.macosxlabs.org/rsyncx/rsyncx.html
Marc
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> From: Hugh Evans <email@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 18:43:18 -0700
> To: macos-x-server <email@hidden>
> Subject: Network issues... how to move forward???
>
> I wrote a couple of days ago about my OS X box - who's network
> preferences refused to open. Things are unravelling somewhat and I am
> now at the point that I can only log on as root - still have no network
> connections. For all intents and purposes - the server seems OK in
> every other regard. I am unable to ping, etc. etc.
>
> This server serves a jBoss application and has MySQL DB running.
>
> I'm thinking about doing a reinstall of OS X Server - but would I loose
> all my configeration info. and Database? Am not sure how invasive a
> reinstall really is. Does anyone have any insights?
>
> Also, if I deployed a clean - new machine... how would I move my MySQL
> DB and users to the new machine? Any insights or pointers to more
> info. would be appreciated.
>
> Regards,
>
> Hugh Evans
>
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