Re: [Fed-Talk] Two (2) very important things today
Re: [Fed-Talk] Two (2) very important things today
- Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] Two (2) very important things today
- From: "Michael Pike" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 12:27:36 -0600
Don't get me wrong, Im not jumping on the bash OS X Server bandwagon, but we've had systems (10.5 Server) go tits up not once, but twice for file system corruption.
My question is this - HFS is journaled, why do we (and many others) have such file corruption issues? Sometimes we can recover, other times we cant...
And time machine, while on the surface appears to be a savior, is really useless if you use it in an advanced configuration. Apple says "Time Machine backups on an advanced install of OS X Server is not supported."
I do not know a single person on this mailing list that is going to run a standard "monkey" OS X server preset. I am betting everyone is advanced mode...
I was told by Apple ENTERPRISE support that "a restore may work, it may not." I've not tried to test it, but my guess is the way time machine works, that things like an SQL database would not be backed up because the files are open when time machine is copying files... although you could set a cron job to sqldump - but that defeats the purpose of backups you don't have to worry about.
Dave S: You are pretty knowledgeable, have you tested an advanced server time machine restore, and was it successful? Because honestly, Linux is looking better and better.... mainly for stability (we had a server up (no exaggeration) for over 909 days - no reboots), no file corruption running Intersystems Cache under Redhat... with heavy usage on E-Series.
Every mac server I've run has had a corrupt file system problem within a year of operation. Sometimes recoverable, sometimes not, but always requiring special software (Disk warrior).
My main question for you though - time machine restore advanced server - good or bad, or unknown?
mike
sorry for typos. no time to correct right now.
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 7:00 AM, Dave Schroeder <
email@hidden> wrote:
On Apr 25, 2008, at 6:16 AM, Gordon Bob Ctr AF/A3/5PEG wrote:
• I just lost my new Intel Xserve to bad software. My server lost AFP after two months. I rebuilt it twice and could not get any of the monitors to work. Which means I could not finish setting up my server. Taking it to 10.4.11 today. I read a lot of bad things in the discussion groups about these issues. DON'T GO TO 10.5 Server yet.
"Bad software"? We're running 10.5 server on 30 production Xserves without issue, including many that provide heavy AFP service. There are a lot of "bad things" in discussion groups about every single release. 10.5 server has some issues, just like 10.4, 10.3, 10.2, 10.1, and 10.0 server had.
• Once again I need Safari 3.11 for Tiger and can not get it from Apples website. I HAVE to use a pc to access the internet. I can not attach my macs to the Niprnet yet. Can some one please help me get a copy for my server.
<http://appldnld.apple.com.edgesuite.net/content.info.apple.com/Safari3/061-4591.20080416.1Swp7Y/Safari311UpdTiger.dmg>
- Dave
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