Restore Lion Server from Time Machine backup

Mar 21, '12 07:30:00AM

Contributed by: kirkmc

Apple has published a technical note explaining how to restore Lion Server from a Time Machine backup. This process involves booting from a Recovery partition, and using a couple of Terminal commands.

Apple points out that:

"Lion Server also includes a process called ServerBackup which works with Time Machine. ServerBackup performs daily backups of Open Directory (if it is enabled) and the Postgres databases used by the Address Book, iCal, Podcast, Profile Manager, and Wiki services. These daily backups are included in the Time Machine backup of Lion Server. ServerBackup also takes part in the restoration of server services, running during the first startup after a server has been restored, and restoring server services and databases into place after the server has started up."

This is good to know if you're running Lion Server and use Time Machine. Personally, I would feel safer having a clone of my drive; if running a server, I'd update the clone every hour, and this is much easier to recover, as you can boot from the clone.

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