Andrew,
The new server had the IP of the old server and would have caused the
Ethernet card to shut down if it was put on the Ethernet cable. Besides
that it took 35 mins. to drive copy 9 gigs of information it would have
taken a lot longer on a 10 MB network connection.
Lenny Bauman
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Kaplan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 2:56 PM
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Migration strategy
> >>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
> > >
> >
> >
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