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To export users and groups:

1Open Server Admin and log in to the server that stores the user and group accounts you want to migrate.

2Click Users & Groups and choose Show Users & Groups.

3Select the users and groups you want to export, then click Export.

When you export users using Server Admin, encrypted passwords are exported. If you want to reset passwords, you can do so using Workgroup Manager, as described in step 6.

Step 2: Create archive files

Save all the data files that you want to reuse with Mac OS X Server version 10.3. In step 4 you’ll move the files described below, as well as the export file created in step 1, to the version 10.3 computer.

For large amounts of data, you may want to create one or more tar archives or use /usr/bin/mkdmg to create disk image files. Both disk images and tar files can be transferred using FTP.

To create a tar archive, use the tar command in the Terminal application. The command’s -cflag creates a new archive file in tar format. Use the -fflag to identify the archive file name. Use the -v(verbose) flag to view useful information as the command executes:

tar -cvf /MyHFSVolume/MM.tar /MyHFSVolume/Macintosh\ Manager

The escape character (\ in the example above) indicates a space in the name. You can also use quotation marks to handle embedded spaces:

tar -cvf /MyHFSVolume/MM.tar "/MyHFSVolume/Macintosh Manager"

Web Configuration Data

Save the directory /etc/httpd/ and all its contents. Also save the file /etc/webperfcache/ webperfcache.conf.

Web Content

Copy web content you want to reuse from:

•/Library/Webserver/Documents/

•/Library/Webserver/CGI-Executables

•Any other location in which it resides

MySQL Data

Mac OS X Server version 10.1 preinstalled MySQL version 3.23. Version 10.3 preinstalls a newer version—version 4.0.

Make a copy of your MySQL databases, stored in /var/mysql/, if you want to migrate to version 4.0.

Chapter 3 Migrating From Mac OS X Server Version 10.1