Re: Re: vpopmail migration
dhaval thakar <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.mail.vpopmail |
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On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 7:32 PM, Eric Shubert <[email protected]> wrote: > How many accounts are you talking about? It might be easiest to create the > (domain and) accounts manually or with a script on the new host, then copy > any emails over from/to the /home/vpopmail/domains/ directory using either > scp or rsync. > > On 06/15/2011 07:57 PM, Ron Herzing wrote: > >> Hello All, >> >> My names Ron and I’m new to the list. Can anyone point me in the right >> direction for migrating a vpopmail domain to another vpopmail server? >> >> Details: >> >> I currently have a mail server with a domain of auffenberg.com and the >> user accounts are in vpopmail using vpasswd.cdb to store user accounts. >> >> I have built a new mail server and this one also uses vpopmail except >> that I am using mysql for the user accounts. I have read that to convert >> the cdb file to mysql >> >> that I should use: vconvert –c –m >> >> I’m having trouble finding any more information on converting and >> migrating to another server. >> >> My questions: What else do I have to do in order to convert my user >> accounts and get them over to the new server? >> >> How is vconvert able to insert data into the database? Does it require >> further command line instruction to accomplish this? >> >> Any information on how to go about this would be greatly appreciated. >> >> Thanks, >> >> ~Ron >> >> >> > > you can try... > 1)dont convert cdb, use new server with cdb for a migration. add xyz.com on new server 2)set rsync from old to new server for MAILDIR & 3)convert cdb to mysql backup & remove cdb if on qmail, dont forget /var/qmail/users -- Regards Dhaval Thakar Education is a fundamental Right. Help educate a child through www.giveindia.org <http://www.giveindia.org/default.aspx> http://www.linuxreaders.com/ http://www.ipguide.info/ !DSPAM:4dfa11ce32714486020968!