moving to a new machine

[Alan Hartless]

You seem very busy answering all these emails from the list!  I really do 
appreciate it.

If you have time, can you go into a bit more detail?  So are you saying that I 
would move the folder over to the new machine then run the obmtool for the 
first package installation then kill it?  Or do I run the obmtool on the old 
machine then move the folder over?  If I do the obmtool thing, do I still 
need to edit those files?

Oh btw, I figured out what was wrong with my receiving mail problem.  My 
router was still set up to forward the service where I originally had my 
desktop set up to receive it's ip address by dhcp!  I felt like an idiot when 
I saw that.  But, its running now!  Thanks for all your help.

Alan

On Wednesday February 8 2006 5:22 pm, Thomas Arendsen Hein wrote:
> * Alan Hartless <harty83 at gmail.com> [20060208 02:33]:
> > I just bought a new machine that will replace the one that I now
> > have my kolab server installed on.  Can I simply copy over the
> > /kolab folder if I have the exact same distrib of linux on the new
> > machine?  Or is that not possible?
>
> Some things have to be created/modified under /etc: /etc/passwd and
> friends for the users, some entries in crontab, init script and
> more.
>
> You can recreate this by using ./obmtool kolab and aborting it quite
> early (after the installation of the first package). After this you
> can remove the created /kolab directory and put your backup /kolab
> in place.
>
> For Kolab 2.1beta1 you have to restore an extra crontab entry for
> the kolab user, but I assume you're using 2.0.x
>
> Thomas