Trying to restore Mac Server, Options greyed out...

[abillybob]

Hi All

 

So I'm trying to restore the files from our old mac server to a new mac server. It will calculate all the sizes of different categories to restore and tell me that our 250GB SSD isn't big enough to store 1TB of data... thank god Apple are here to do that calculation after 2 hours of "Calculating" otherwise I wouldn't have known this!!

 

Problem is it won't let me uncheck the items I don't want restoring, all the tick marks are greyed out.

 

Has anyone else come across this problem?

 

Here's a screenshot if it helps

 

Thanks in advance

Edited January 8, 2018 by abillybob

[DJ-1701]

Try the Migration Assistant instead of a Restore.

 

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/time-machine-restore-to-smaller-hard-drive.1824792/

[abillybob]

Try the Migration Assistant instead of a Restore.

 

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/time-machine-restore-to-smaller-hard-drive.1824792/

 

Tried this already same issue

[abillybob]

Any other ideas?

[AntonioRocco]

As you've seen Migration Assistant (for server or client) takes a while when large amounts of data are involved. If you wait long enough (I can't say how long) it will eventually do it. This, unfortunately, is where I have a problem with it, because in my experience, the longer it takes the more likely you'll get errors and the likelihood for transferred data to be partially skipped increases.

 

What I would do and have done many times in the past, because it's quicker, is to bypass the migration assistant altogether. Set up the new server as you've already done, prepare the shares as you want them and run the following command on shares (stop the sharing service first) on your old server:

 

sudo chmod -R -N /pathtoshare

 

I would run the command a couple of times to be on the safe side. Do it for all the shares involved if there are more than one and don't ever run the command on the top level of the system/boot drive.

 

Finally target disk mode the olde server to the new one. When the old server appears on the desktop, navigate to the data and start copying it over. When the data has been copied, apply the desired permissions to the data and propagate.

 

The instructions above are only for shared data and not for user home folders. I've assumed user home folders are with your AD. If your environment is different to the usual then don't follow any of the above and post back with more details.

 

Hopefully this may help?

 

Antonio Rocco (ACSA)

Edited January 9, 2018 by AntonioRocco