Migrating Server to Another Box/IP

2004-04-01 Thread J Malcolm
I am planning to move my domains to another box and another IP address.  I’m well aware of the propagation delays when a domain’s IP address changes.  I need to minimize the disruption to my users and obviously not lose any mail in the process.  Is there any ‘best practices’ for how to do t

RE: Migrating Server to Another Box/IP

2004-04-01 Thread Chris Means
Can you redirect traffic from the old IP to the new IP?   Seems like it would be the simplest solution. From: J Malcolm [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 2:14 PMTo: James Users ListSubject: Migrating Server to Another Box/IP I am planning to

RE: Migrating Server to Another Box/IP

2004-04-01 Thread J Malcolm
, that’s not good.   Is there a way around that?   Jerry   -Original Message- From: Chris Means [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 2:18 PM To: 'James Users List' Subject: RE: Migrating Server to Another Box/IP   Can you redirect traffic from the old IP to

RE: Migrating Server to Another Box/IP

2004-04-01 Thread Chris Means
ible...and probably the simplest approach. -Chris From: J Malcolm [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 2:30 PM To: 'James Users List'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Migrating Serv

Re: Migrating Server to Another Box/IP

2004-04-01 Thread Robert J Taylor
I've done what you've described for several hundred users when we migrated hosting centers for our Linux servers. What we did is run James on both the old and new servers (in separate JVMs, of course) but using the same backend database (MySQL; over a secure tunnel). Maybe not preferred but it

Re: Migrating Server to Another Box/IP

2004-04-02 Thread Danny Angus
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Re: Migrating Server to Another Box/IP

2004-04-02 Thread Robert J Taylor
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