• Mac OS X Server

    Migrating the Wiki Service in Mac OS X Server

    Lion brings with it a few challenges for administrators. One such is migrating the wiki service into the new format. When doing an upgrade in place, the Wiki service is pretty straight forward to upgrade, but in many cases, due to aging hardware, wiki services are moving from an older computer to a newer computer. This can be done in one of two ways. The first is to “migrate” the data by copying the Collaboration folder onto the new system. The second is to “export” and “import” the data. I usually recommend doing a migrate where possible, so we’ll start with that method. Note: Before getting started, make sure that…

  • Xsan

    Disable Spotlight for Xsan Volumes

    I’ve seen a number of Xsan environments spewing tons of errors in regards to Spotlight this and Spotlight that. Yup, that is with Spotlight disabled on the volumes. You can use the mdutil command to help with this. If you have two volumes, then the script to do so would be similar to the following (assuming they are called A and B): mdutil -i off /Volumes/A mdutil -i off /Volumes/B Later if you decide to implement Spotlight, you can use the following to re-enable indexing: mdutil -i on /Volumes/A mdutil -i on /Volumes/B