[CalendarServer-users] moving calendars

[Terry Barnum]

That's good info John, thanks for posting your findings.

As for rsync backups, you might take a look at RsyncX for simple,  
automated backups. I have been successfully using rsnapshot for  
several months now <www.rsnapshot.org> which can do incremental,  
rotating backups.

-Terry


On Dec 29, 2007, at 3:07 PM, John McAdams wrote:

> I was able to move my calendar to a new host.
>
> I used "tar cvf" to archive the old calendar. The archive was moved  
> using the Mac OS Finder to a USB drive. Then a Remote Access copy  
> to the new computer on a different network. I unpacked the archive  
> on the new host.
>
> My calendar had already been established on the new host. I put the  
> old .ics files into my calendar/username folder. I ran "ls -l@" and  
> all the old xattrs were present. The username and group had changed  
> however, so I set them back to _calendar:_calendar. I refreshed the  
> calendar on the client and the appointments appeared.
>
> This is great. Moving and restoring files is simple if all the  
> attributes are intact.
>
> Next I'd like to set up some rsync scripts for backup. If anybody  
> has some sample scripts please post.
>
> Best regards,
> -- jmca
>
>
> On Dec 20, 2007, at 10:23 AM, Cyrus Daboo wrote:
>
>> Hi John,
>>
>> --On December 20, 2007 1:36:56 AM -0500 John McAdams  
>> <johnemac at tekserve.com> wrote:
>>
>>>> Are you using OS X server with an OpenDirectory accounting system,
>>>> or the open source server with xml files for accounts?
>>>
>>> OS X Server. The pre-production server was connected to an OD  
>>> Master. All
>>> the user accounts have calendar enabled on the OD Master. We will  
>>> use the
>>> same OD Master in production.
>>
>> OK, in all likelihood you should not have a problem if you switch  
>> the ip/hostname. However, you will probably need to restart that  
>> machine and/or possibly re-bind it to the OD master if you used  
>> authenticated binding.
>>
>> Let me know if you run into any problems with this.
>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> If using OS X and you change the hostname, you may need to re- 
>>>> enable
>>>> calendaring for each user for the new host.
>>>>
>>>> If using XML accounts, then you should not need to change anything.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Cyrus Daboo
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> I was wondering about the xattr on the files. When I run ls -l@ I  
>>> see
>>> some webdav acls. I'd like to learn more about backing up and  
>>> restoring
>>> the files and repairing their permissions in case something goes  
>>> wrong.
>>
>> For backup/restore you definitely need to make sure any tool you  
>> use is capable of backing up the xattrs. Most command line tools  
>> have been enhanced to support that (tar for example).
>>
>> WRT repairs - right now we do not have any specific tools for  
>> doing that. You can manually list or change xattr's using the  
>> xattr command line utility, though a recent change we did to the  
>> server where we store compressed values in xattrs, will mean you  
>> cannot easily do this. However, we do have our own version of the  
>> xattr tool on theopen source site that includes an option to deal  
>> with the compression.
>>
>> Obviously we are keen to know what sort of admin tools are going  
>> to be required in use, so if you run into a need for anything  
>> please let us know. In the short term at least, we can probably  
>> help out with a python script to fix things up if needed.
>>
>> -- 
>> Cyrus Daboo
>>
>>
>
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Terry Barnum
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