jg167
04-25-2002, 02:02 PM
I am running MacOS X Server 10.4, mostly as when the betas were first available it was the server version and later on you needed the server version to run WebObjects. Neither of these is the case now, but I never bothered to move to the client vesion. I just upgraded my old 4.3 (MacOS 9) copy of Retrospect Express to 5.0 (since the preview will expire in 4 days), uninstalled said preview version as per Dantz's instructions, only to find that Retrospect Express (nor Desktop) will run on Server (oh thank you Dantz for making this so clear, NOT!).
So while maybe I'll consider other backup solutions, or maybe I'll downgrade to the client version (not sure how this would work), its possible I'll even pony up the extra $200 to upgrade to Workgroup, but in the meantime (to do a backup NOW) here is the hack.
1) become root
2) cd /System/Library/CoreServices
3) mv ServerVersion.plist SvrVer.plist
3a) Click "about this mac" and it should NOT show "Server"
4) run Retrospect Express (or Desktop I presume but have not tried)
Note this will backup the above renamed file, if doing an incremental
ServerVersion.plist will not exist now, but the original version might
in your backup set, so when recovering "server" may come back on.
I suspect Retrospect only checks this at startup so it should not be
a problem, but...
5) (still in /System/Library/CoreServices )
mv SvrVer.plist ServerVersion.plist
5a) Verify that "Server" is once again displayed in "about this mac"
So basically this just hides the fact that this machine is runing the Server version while Express is running. I just did this, and all was fine. However obviously making the system believe it is runing sw that it is not in fact running might have other consequences so do not leave things this way.
Also do not confuse SystemVersion.plist with ServerVersion.plist !
As always, use at your own risk.
-jrg
So while maybe I'll consider other backup solutions, or maybe I'll downgrade to the client version (not sure how this would work), its possible I'll even pony up the extra $200 to upgrade to Workgroup, but in the meantime (to do a backup NOW) here is the hack.
1) become root
2) cd /System/Library/CoreServices
3) mv ServerVersion.plist SvrVer.plist
3a) Click "about this mac" and it should NOT show "Server"
4) run Retrospect Express (or Desktop I presume but have not tried)
Note this will backup the above renamed file, if doing an incremental
ServerVersion.plist will not exist now, but the original version might
in your backup set, so when recovering "server" may come back on.
I suspect Retrospect only checks this at startup so it should not be
a problem, but...
5) (still in /System/Library/CoreServices )
mv SvrVer.plist ServerVersion.plist
5a) Verify that "Server" is once again displayed in "about this mac"
So basically this just hides the fact that this machine is runing the Server version while Express is running. I just did this, and all was fine. However obviously making the system believe it is runing sw that it is not in fact running might have other consequences so do not leave things this way.
Also do not confuse SystemVersion.plist with ServerVersion.plist !
As always, use at your own risk.
-jrg