I had planned the migration from Tiger Server to Leopard Server for this week, but hadn’t intended to do it today nor during daytime hours. Unfortunately, a DOS attack on UNNA prompted me to go ahead and upgrade so that I could work on alleviating that issue.

About 13 hours later (including a few hours to walk the dog and eat dinner), my Mac mini server is back up and now running Mac OS X 10.5.3 Server. I’ve run into some issues with 10.5.2 Server and earlier at my day job, but this revision seems to be quite a bit better. The migration went very smoothly and some service configurations were just drop-in replacements.

I have yet to start migrating backup scripts and some special services requiring custom Startup Items which will need to be re-written as launchd jobs. Also, UNNA has many PHP 4 to PHP 5 growing pains for me to work through as I’ve been working on migrating it to the Textpattern CMS as of late. I may have to refocus a bit of that effort over the next few days to get it cleaned up again.

I’ll try to describe the funky setup I’ve got in further posts, but here’s to hoping that Mac OS X 10.5.3 Server really does embody many more improvements and will give me few headaches going forward.