Wade writes:
> After building a new qmail server, I now have to transfer everything. I
> have:
> - Stop qmail on the old server (allowing a backup server to accept mail).
> - Transfer /home to new server:
> - Change DNS MX records
No. Change the MX records to the new server first. That way, your
users won't notice a service interruption, and you don't need a backup
server. It'll just take a little while longer for their mail to
appear. Given that the disk takes time to read and write, there's no
alternative, unless you've been *really* anal-retentive and have
configured users or groups of users with a special name in the DNS for
their POP/SMTP servers. Then, you can switch users over to the new
server shortly before moving their mail over.
I've never had a customer with that much spare time, however. :)
If they have that much spare time, they don't need to buy mine.
> `scp -rp ..` changed all files/directories to root.root ownership. I have
> been told to try rsync or tar - any better ideas or is one of these the way
> to go?
Safest thing to do is go into each user's Maildir, tar up new/ and
cur/, then restore on the new server into their Maildir's tmp/, then
rename from tmp/{new,cur}/ into new/ and cur/.
Every customer has their own idiosyncrasies. So far I've had to cons
up a special script to move the files. Nothing useful to share.
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