On Fri, November 9, 2007 12:51 am, Gonzalo Servat wrote:
> On Nov 8, 2007 10:21 AM, Voytek Eymont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've done a few mail server migrations in the past and a bit of DNS
> trickery helps in not loosing mail. What I would do is set the TTL really
-snip-
> hours, for me it
On Nov 8, 2007 10:21 AM, Voytek Eymont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> [..snip..]
> James, Dave, thanks
>
> between the time I copy it, and, the mail server is transferred, there are
> bound to be emails deleted/removed from main server, (as well as new ones
> added),
>
I've done a few mail server
On Nov 8, 2007 10:51 AM, Gonzalo Servat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [..snip..]
> I've done a few mail server migrations in the past and a bit of DNS
> trickery helps in not loosing mail. What I would do is set the TTL really
> low (< 10 mins) for the domain I was transferring (so that all records
On Thu, November 8, 2007 9:34 pm, Dave Kempe wrote:
> Voytek Eymont wrote:
> why no just rsync it as root with -av and you preserve all the ownership
James, Dave, thanks
between the time I copy it, and, the mail server is transferred, there are
bound to be emails deleted/removed from main serve
> I was looking at activate the new mail server, and, then, rsync the
> existing Maildirs to 'synchronize' old & new servers;
>
> as I'm the only user with shell access, should I just add shell access to
> user '5000' for the purpose of running rsync, then, remove it?
>
> or, what's a proper wa
Voytek Eymont wrote:
or, what's a proper way to do this copy ?
why no just rsync it as root with -av and you preserve all the ownership
and don't need to worry. OTOH, if you stuff it up, a recursive chown
will fix it, so no need to worry.
dave
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I'm migrating mail server to new server;
all mail is for virtual users in /var/home/vhosts/%dom.tld%/%user&/Maildir;
owned by '5000' as so
drwx--5 5000 5000
I was looking at activate the new mail server, and, then, rsync the
existing Maildirs to 'synchronize' old & new servers;
as I
