migration howto?

[Patrick Boutilier]

Rick ter Schele wrote:
>>>>>>"Wil" == Wil Cooley <wcooley at nakedape.cc> writes:
> 
> 
>     >> I need to move a Cyrus IMAP server that's running on one (Debian)
>     >> machine to another.  The move should be transparent to the users.  Is
>     >> there a howto or step-by-step guide for doing this?  Any tips on the
>     >> dos and don'ts?
> 
>     Wil> Are you /only/ changing hardware?  Will your installed version of
>     Wil> Cyrus, OS, etc. all remain more or less the same?  If so, then you
>     Wil> should pretty much just be able to use 'rsync'.  You'll of course have
>     Wil> to change your hostname if it's hard-coded for Postfix and change your
>     Wil> DNS.
> 
> This is exactly the answer I was hoping to get, although there was the worry
> that it would turn out to be more convoluted.  I'll give it a shot.


Depending on how much data you have to transfer you might want to try 
tar over ssh. rsync can take quite a while to build the file list.




> 
> Thanks Wil.
> 
> Rick.
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