Carbon copy cloner for mac os 11.55/21/2023 ![]() Time to restore from your old Xsan configuration. So we have to wait while the bag of scripts that is Profile Manager gets updated but no one uses it but it’s the most important app in Server.app now, no I am not bitter why do you ask. Click a bunch of buttons (see all my old blog posts) and launch the new Server.app. We noticed that Server app is no longer server app.Īfter macOS Big Sur is installed zip up your older server.app and drag in your new one (or use that fancy App Store app to do it for you if you’re lazy). See my last upgrade blog post and it’s the same as installing macOS Big Sur on any Mac, except this Mac Mini is running an Xsan production SAN environment with a lot of RAID arrays in a server rack or two. We noticed that you’re running Server.app and we don’t do those fun things anymore. Oh wait, we noticed that you’re running Server.app and well, we don’t do a lot of the same things anymore in the new Server.app so maybe this is a warning. Please proceed with the macOS Big Sur install I had told Munki to uninstall the bigsurblocker app and it did for every other Mac, I swear, really. Ok, delete the app from /usr/local/bin, hmm, nope. ![]() And where is that pesky launch daemon that I can unload and get to this Big Sur install. But Xsan in macOS Big Sur (11) is not only production ready storage SAN awesome it has been upgraded to be compatible with Quantum’s Stornext 7 (previously it was only v.5) No one in their right mind is using Profile Manager to install or manage profiles, they’re using commercial MDM vendors. Why they haven’t taken out Profile Manager and not kept Xsan instead made me scratch my head. In macOS Big Sur new setups of Server.app Xsan is gone. Server.app manages only three (3) services for an Xsan upgrade: Profile Manager, Open Directory and Xsan. Download macOS Big Sur and the Server.app. Have fun! (We will cover this in a future post). It is true you need the Server.app for an upgrade from macOS Catalina 10.15.7 but if you’re starting from scratch in macOS 11 you will be building your Xsan in Terminal. It is both true and not true that you can setup Xsan in Big Sur with the Server.app. I used Greg Neagle’s installinstallmacos.py to download macOS Big Sur as a disk image and had that and the App Store’s Server.app downloaded beforehand and not be dependent on internet access (production SANs are not always internet accessible). Xsan volumes are typically made of up fibre channel RAID arrays. Or read Apple’s new Xsan Management Guide. Maybe go read last year’s blog post on upgrading the Xsan to macOS Catalina 10.15.6 which was detailed and thorough. How to upgrade an Xsan to macOS Big Sur (11.5.1). More seriously, humans makes mistakes and break things (that, me!) but ransomware is real and my elaborate backup and archive planning has saved a few customers this year. Sysadmins are indistinguishable from malware sometimes, but we mean well. Plan for the worst, pay for what you can to keep your business operational and lessen the impact of mechanical failures, human oopsies, or ransomware. And cloud backups for those clients that want them. ![]() Well, everything except for the last part. The data is backed up to LTO, nearline archives racked and stacked in a server room and on redundant thunderbolt RAIDs which are parked on electric trucks ready to blast off at the earliest sign of danger. We planned hard and we were ready to restore Xsan from Time Machine, if we had to. ![]() “Planning for disasters, while hoping for none” is the IT mantra.
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