I've been running Server 7 for about 10 months without any problems. Upgraded to 8 this weekend and had my first crash 4 hours into the work day. Went back to last backed up file but unable to import records from the files that crashed, import states x records added/updated, x records skipped due to errors and no records are imported.

Is this just a coincidence or could 8 have some issues? Server 8 opened the files fine upon install this weekend, both files made it through the first opening/verification of records. Ran fine over the weekend, backing up every hour, but no users around this weekend.

The log did not indicate anything wrong, last note in the log was of a user about to open a file.

I think I'm returning to Server 7 for a few months and maybe test at a later date.

OS, hardware used?

System requirements are

* Mac OS X (10.4.x or 10.3.9)

* Mac OS X Server (10.4.x or 10.3.9)

* Processor: G4 500MHz

* 256MB of RAM (1GB recommended)

* Hard disk: 1GB of available disk space

(I saw on FSA that you used 10.3.8)

Edited October 31, 200520 yr by Guest

You are right.

THANKS, hate missing the easy ones.

Will upgrade and try again.

DJK

Went to upgrade the server and turns out it was running 10.3.9 when crashed, double checked the updater logs, 10.3.9 was installed weeks prior to the 10/31/05 crash. Don't know how I misread the OS version.

My plan is to uprade again this weekend but set up a few machines to repeatedly open the file, do a find and the close the file. As the crash occurred when a machine was opening the file I figure this would be a good test, unless someone has a better idea...

DJK

I've had random, infrequent crashes using 10.4.2 and Server 7.0v3. Perhaps "Crash" is not accurate, since what I see is actually that the machine locks up. I believe this is the infamous "lookupd crash" bug (search apple forums for 'lookupd' for more info).

I'd suggest you might want to consider staying on 10.3.9 until 10.4.3 has been run through it's paces?