Topic: Approaches to migrating v6 to v7 ?

[dmajwool]

Looking ahead to migrating v6 to v7,

Is there a Howto for getting large amounts of data files (email documents, i-bays and the like) from a customised v6 machine onto a new v7 machine? I think I would be happier to approach that by copying/restoring to a new box rather than upgrading the OS on an existing box.

Most of my search results suggest using backup2ws (which didn't install for me in v7b2).  This seems fair enough, but I wonder if there is a practical alternative using  Midnight Commander and mounting oldserver's data folders then straight copying the data across to newserver?

There is an option in mc to use its network file system under mcserv.  Is this a candidate?  

Alternatively, it looks like SME can currently operate as an nfs client, but not an nfs server.  Am I right? Is nfs a candidate?

Food for thought.  David

[RonM]

Is there a Howto for getting large amounts of data files (email documents, i-bays and the like) from a customised v6 machine onto a new v7 machine?
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 I wonder if there is a practical alternative using  Midnight Commander and mounting oldserver's data folders then straight copying the data across to newserver?

SME can be both an ftp client and a server, so this is doable. In MC choose File >> Quick cd
type "/#ftp:admin@xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx /" (without "")
where xxx... is the IP address of your old server
hit "Enter"
you will be asked for the admin password for the old server
and then will connect

the ftp connection is rooted at /home/e-smith/files
so you can manually move anything under this path. You'd need to copy the mail directories and SQL files into this path if you wanted to copy them this way.

MC will "mount" this as a folder under / in treeview, which will last for the duration of the MC session. Which, I have to admit is pretty cool ;-) Just select the folder you want to copy in the left pane in treeview mode, choose F5 (copy) on the bottom and type in the destination directory path.

I just xferred a cpl gigs this way, to test if it would work, and it did fine, but remember to be careful with your user's data - for some reason, they think that stuff is valuable!

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