Topic: Copy/Move mail from SME-Server 5.5 to SME-Server 6 Final

[M.R. McDonald]

I am looking to upgrade from my existing SME-Server 5.5 to SME-Server 6 final.  The newer server will be on different hardware.  I suspect I could move the harddrive from the old server to the new one and run the upgrade, but I have larger drives in the v6 server.

I can recreate the I-Bays, shares and user accounts with minimal amount of work.  I use the server for my website and e-mail.  I use the IMAP4 server, so I need to move my e-mail from the old server to the new server as well.

What is the recommended method for doing this type of upgrade?


Thank You in advance for your help.

MD

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[Michiel]

> I can recreate the I-Bays, shares and user accounts with
> minimal amount of work.  I use the server for my website and

Obviously there are several ways to do this, but this is what I would do in your case:

1/ Upgrade your old server to SME 6. This will take care of the mail conversion.

2/ Make a clean SME 6.0 on your new machine.

3/ Transfer the ibays and user accounts

4/ Use your old machine to test your favourite contribs before installing them on the new machine.

Michiel

[Ralph]

If you have a cloned drive of your old server, you may want to try this on the cloned drive. This is a really fast way to get up and running even when changing hardware. Just install the cloned drive of your old server on  the new box, but don't boot it up. Then put the 6.0 cd and boot to it, and let it upgrade the old server's configuration on the new hardware. This worked for me many times, even when I changed from Intel to AMD cpu, with totally different mobo's and chipsets. However, ONLY TRY THIS IF YOU HAVE a backup drive of your old server. Because things could go very wrong., but it may work fine, especially if the hardware is quite similar.

-Ralph

[Marco Garza]

I would suggest moving to 5.6 then to 6.0.  Just upgraded today from 5.5 to 6.0 and it was a nightmare.  5.6 seems to migrate things over better for 6.0 then just upgrading to 6.0.  Just my experience.

HTH

[Jim Darrough]

I have a 5.5 server and gateway running, with a few ibays, etc, and serving as a print server.

I want to set up a new 6.0 server on another box with new drives. I read your post about "cloned" drives, but can I just copy everything over my network to the new hard drive, or should I just put the whole 5.5 drive to cd(s) and then copy them to a newly-installed 5.5 server, then boot the 6.0 disk to upgrade?

What happens to my ibays when I do this?

Thanks for your help. I am learning, albeit slowly.

Sincerely, Jim Darrough

[aussie]

pls see below (oops double posted)

[aussie]

If you have a cloned drive of your old server, you may want to try this on the cloned drive. This is a really fast way to get up and running even when changing hardware. Just install the cloned drive of your old server on  the new box, but don't boot it up. Then put the 6.0 cd and boot to it, and let it upgrade the old server's configuration on the new hardware. This worked for me many times, even when I changed from Intel to AMD cpu, with totally different mobo's and chipsets. However, ONLY TRY THIS IF YOU HAVE a backup drive of your old server. Because things could go very wrong., but it may work fine, especially if the hardware is quite similar.

-Ralph

How do you suggest cloning drive?

1. Ive tried ghost but end up with 'no valid journal super block' and kernel panic (I think something to do with grub)

2. of course the new drive is bigger! so plain dd wont work.

TIA Rob