Thank you to all that did work on the sme 8 version and continuing to support sme7 as well during the time.
Thank very special thank you to those that put in many hours of your sacrificed time to make sme8 possible.
I am now in the process of updating our servers to sme8 by way of new installs.
I have had very few problems with the upgrade by installing the sme8 and using the pre-restore solution to read the smeserver.tgz file that is created from a backup inside the server-manager web page.
Before I create the smeserver.tgz file, i delete the majority of files that are shared in the ibays to a backup windows workstations and then replace the files back onto the newly installed sme8 server. The only issue i had to do after using the tar -C / -zxvf smeserver.tgz was to go into the newly installed server's server-manager webpage and then goto each ibay then hit save. I had to the save on each ibay to restore the original rights back to the ibays, which was easily done.
This was the first time i used the smeserver.tgz file to do any kind of restore and it restore all users, ibays, and email accounts and email account emails. I was impressed.
I will also send a nice donation before the end of september when i get my eoy bonus if there is any and if not i will send something.
Thank you again