Gaby Kule wrote:
> Hi All, finally I could easily install qmailtoaster and qtp on CentOS 4.4
> Now, I want to migrate my domains from a qmail-toaster-1.03-1.0.15
> (August/2004) installed on Mandrake 10.x
> This old installation does not have spamassasin and simscan installed, this
> is the real motivation for mi migration.
>
> My question is, all work is just copy the config files and the virtual
> domains directory (now /home/vpopmail) ?
> Is there any other consideration to take ? I was looking at the upgrade
> pages (http://wiki.qmailtoaster.com/index.php/Upgrading) but I think that
> maibe this procedure is tested for migrating from a most recent version.
> By example, Im not using Mysql on my old box
>
> This is what I think I must do, I have a clean new installation :
>
> a.. backs up control and configuration files
> a.. stops qmail
> a.. invokes qtp-remove-pkgs to remove certain packages that need to be
> removed
> a.. upgrades the packages with a single rpm -Uvh command
> a.. restores control and configuration files
> a.. invokes qtp-convert to do conversion processing:
> a.. mrtg file changes
> b.. mysql password location change
> a.. starts qmail
> a.. runs spamassassin debug configuration
>
> Ill try to migrate a first domain, make ir work, test it a few days, and
> migrate the rest of the server later.
> Any comment will be apreciated.
> regards.
> Gabriel
>
>
Hey Gabriel,
I don't know how these steps apply in your situation. qtp-newmodel does that
stuff when upgrading from an older system, but that shouldn't concern you
since you simply need to migrate the data from 1.0.n to 1.3.n toaster.
Check the list archives. I remember someone several months ago upgrading
from 1.0.n. I don't recall if that was a single host upgrade or a migration
from host to host.
It doesn't appear that anything from those exchanges made it to the wiki.
Please take notes along the way and post them to the wiki so that others may
follow your footsteps.
Doing a single domain first is wise. How many domains do you have? How many
users?
I honestly can't tell you what you can simply copy across. I'm guessing that
the Maildir directories for users would come across clean. I'd recommend
using vadddomain to create the domains, and either enter users in using
vadduser (if there aren't 100's of them) or write a script to invoke
vadduser using input from a prepared text file (I think you might find such
a script in the list archives). The problem you face is primarily (like you
said) the addition of MySQL. Using the commands is the easiest (and safest)
way to get domains and users loaded properly into MySQL. Believe me, I've
looked at the tables. They're a bit obscure, to say the least.
The only other thing that comes to my mind is the possibility of .qmail or
.whatever files you may be using in the old version. I don't know what to
tell you there, as I haven't seen a toaster that old.
Good luck, and please take notes.
--
-Eric 'shubes'
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