On 8 Dec 2008, at 08:47, Antti Hermunen wrote:
... I'm running Mac OS X Server 10.5.5 with the Calendar server -
Had to replace a failed hard drive on the server and after the changeover iCal Server stopped working.
My guess is that cloning the system and booting off that system on a drive with a different volume name somehow borked the OpenDirectory settings for iCal Server. ... The calendar data is still there - all 180 Mb of it but the status window in Server Admin says that there are no users, calendars etc. and the calendars have disappeared from the CalDAV clients i.e. iCal.
How did you transfer the data? I'm guessing that you copied the whole o/s + server data from the failing hard-drive to the new one? Note that Calendar Server requires ACLs on its data directory. I recently cloned a system using `ditto --rsrc --extattr --acl` - note that these should be the defaults on 10.5 - and it works perfectly, but I am not running Calendar Server on that machine. However I think that `cp -R` might neglect some or all of the Mac-specific metadata, so if you did that I would perhaps have another attempt at recovering the data dir. Stroller.