>>9) Drive Copied (or Ghost) the 30 gig to a new 40 Gig hard drive. Why didn't you just copy the files accross, as this would have defraged the data.
Andrew P. Kaplan Network Administrator CyberShore, Inc. http://www.cshore.com "Your mouse has moved. Windows NT must be restarted for the change to take effect. Reboot now? [ OK ]" > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Lenny Bauman > Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 2:44 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Migration strategy > > > Tor, > > We just upgraded from v5.05 to v7.06 and moved to a new Nt > server. The > upgrade went smooth. Here are the steps that we followed. > > 1) Set up new server Dual PIII 800 MHz with 1 Gig Ram > 2) Installed v 5.05 on this new server > 3) Added the 126 IP address for the mail server (note that the server > is not online i.e connected to the Ethernet cable) > 4) Ran a clean up on the old server that deleted all old mail over 30 > days old > 5) Delete all orphan account from all domains ( this server has been > running for 5 year with very little maintenance) > 6) Backed up the registry entries from the old server > 7) Restored the registry entries on the new server > 8) Took the 30 gig drive out of the old server (This drive > held only the > domain & users folders) > 9) Drive Copied (or Ghost) the 30 gig to a new 40 Gig hard > drive. (Still > had the 30 gig to put the old mail server back live if we had any > problems) > 10) Installed new 40 gig in new server booted and check everything > 11) Stop all IMail services and upgraded to 7.02 > 12) Upgraded to 7.06 and ran HF1 rebooted new server > 13) Connected to Ethernet cable and tested ( We had very few problems > most were thing I forgot. Like turning off smtp auth and not listing all > of the IP address in the relay file) > > I hope that this will help you with your change over. > Good luck and > let me know if I can help you with any other information. > > > Lenny Bauman > > LRBCG.com > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Tor Rognmo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 1:27 PM > Subject: [IMail Forum] Migration strategy > > > > We are running Imail 7.06 with about 30 domains and 800 users. > > I'm going to be replacing the current server box with a new one > and I have > some questions regarding our migration strategy. > > If I run the registry backup utility in the i-mail administrator on the > old box, then do a fresh install of I-mail on the new server, how > much will > the restore recreate and how much will I need to do manually? > > E.g. should I plan to recreate the domains, move the user > folders from the > old server to the new, then run the restore utility? Will the utility also > migrate aliases and passwords? > > Thanks, > > Tor Rognmo > > Systems Administrator > > Vancouver, BC Canada > > > > > > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > to be removed from this list. > > An Archive of this list is available at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > > Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked > questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > > --- > Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.332 / Virus Database: 186 - Release Date: 3/6/02 > --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.332 / Virus Database: 186 - Release Date: 3/6/02 Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
