Speaking as someone who has just done this, Jake and crew have done a great
job on the toaster and the backup/restore scripts. There were only a few
minor things I needed to do to make it work:
#1 - make sure you make any major config changes before restoring; for me
this meant unhooking qmail-dk as the qmail-queue component, enabling
vpopmail roaming users, and adding the CHKUSER variable that allows me to
disable CHKUSER completely (I'm behind another spam box)
#2 - confirm you are up to date on your packages; I installed from the
QMTISO, and it took care of this wonderfully
#3 - change your mysql root password if necessary
#4 - make sure your firewall is ready to go; I thought the QMTISO was
supposed to set up a basic firewall, but I had no firewall after completion
of my install; I have an iptables script I run anyway, so I used that
Once your groundwork is laid, there were a few quirks I ran into with the
backup restore process. I would HIGHLY recommend you run through it a few
times to be sure you have it down. Once I had done that, I was able to
disable inbound access, run the backup, copy it to my new server and restore
it in a matter of hours.
I ran qtp-backup with no changes; it placed my backup in /backup/qmailbackup
named as Jake mentioned.
For qtp-restore, I made the following changes. NOTE: THIS IS BASED ON
DOWNLOADING QTP-BACKUP BUT USING THE QTP-RESTORE THAT CAME WITH THE QMTISO;
CONFIRM WHETHER YOU NEED TO MAKE THESE CHANGES OR NOT AS UPDATES MAY HAVE
BEEN MADE TO THE SCRIPT:
#1 - changed mysql root password in the qtp-restore script; this is in an
obvious spot toward the top
#2 - around line 121, you need to change *-qmailadminpassword.tar.bz2 to
*-qmailadminpasswd.tar.bz2 (this is to match what the backup script creates)
#3 - around line 109, there is an if/then/else statement that caused
problems for me; I added a colon between the else and fi statements
(http://www.mail-archive.com/qmailtoaster-list@qmailtoaster.com/msg13600.htm
l) so it looks like:
else
:
fi
after that it all came up just fine! I was able to change IP's, open my
firewall to allow inbound connections, and it worked fine!
From: Jake Vickers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2007 5:09 AM
To: qmailtoaster-list@qmailtoaster.com
Subject: Re: [qmailtoaster] Migrate all email accounts to new qmail server
Basura wrote:
Hi Jake
Where the backup process puts the file with all the backup that have to be
moved to the new server?
There is not much documentation on the hole procedure. If I get it clear, I
can write something.
Yes. The docs are mainly in the head of the script. Run the backup, and it
will create a file in your $backupdest dir (defined in the script) like
this:
200607281856-backup.tar.gz
Move that file to your new server's /root dir, and then run the restore
script. Give it a reboot when it's done (not really necessary), and all
should be well.
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