#Mac mini os x server full
#Mac mini os x server software
#Mac mini os x server mac
#Mac mini os x server windows

Better handled via DNS and your network load-balancing device(s)/strategies. IP Failover is no longer present in OS X Server. What you *can* do is setup Open Directory replicas, The only normal exception being for updates (security & otherwise).ДЄs to the real issue(s) you're asking about: There's no easy or great way to do what you're hoping for. I have several I maintain and their uptime is measured in years. But it was so badly dated technology-wise anyway.ДЇor lightweight services, Minis will do you fine. When it comes to troubleshooting certain kinds of issues, give me OS X/BSD any day with dtrace tools over Windows.Дo I wish that Apple had not dropped the X-Serve ? Of course.

#Mac mini os x server windows

It has its limitations and is not going to do some things at all or as well as Windows Server, no more nor less than some people's would-be panacea, Linux (which is silly: What distro, you can know one and be lost on another).Д«efore Linux there was BSD, and much of the server aspects of OS X under the hood (Unix aspects) have BSD-Unix origins. You can set up Open Directory replication and it works and has done for many iterations of OS X.ДЄs to OS X Server 'not being a server OS' - rubbish.

You can use built-in utilities to accomplish OD backup and then back that up to your external BU. Odds of any commercial product supporting Open Directory and actually (!) being able to back it up live, are next to none. Some advisable products for OS X backup are P4 Backup (formerly PresStore) if you need tape,

#Mac mini os x server software

They abandoned OS X development for 5-6 years while their company floundered, and then when they were bought out by EMC (IIRC) it was only minutely better in terms of support but no new product (bug fixes for using PPC-only code reliant on Rosetta in earlier versions of OS X) and only started to *attempt* to be a marketable product after Roxio bought it.Дo not use Carbon Copy Cloner for backup, over Time Machine ? Well yes, you might prefer Uranusium backup over the built-in Windows backup: Point being, the provided software does work, but has its limitations.

#Mac mini os x server mac

The OS X environment at the moment is based on MAC Minis with OS X 10.8.4 (all clients and the Server).ДЄnyone have a reliable way to maintain a OS X infrastructure? but I'm not sure it works anymore with OS X 10.8 + We found also important to have a failover system. when the first server goes down we have to manually reboot the second.

which is basically setting a RAID to another MACs HD and booting as Target Disk mode.Д«ut with this solution we end up with a problem. (Time machine is not a reliable backup), so we are looking to use carbon copy.ДЇor redundancy I read something about R.A.I.S.

#Mac mini os x server full

So we want to have a regular full backup, ip failover and of course information redundancy.ДЇor Backup I already know that there is no Apple solution for OSX Server. After some discussions and problems we decided to create a OS X infrastructure (Open Directory, Bind Devices, Profile manager, etc.) that will work only to manage some profiles and host NetInstall and ARD monitoring and deployments.Д«ut we don't want to have problems in the future. In the beginning we had no OS X infrastructure, we just used to bind them in the AD and set the user as admin on his MAC. Right now 15, and in a couple of months 20 more. I'm new to the OS X environment, just 1 year working with it.ДЄs a board decision in the company I work for, we use a few MACs in the company.