kolab migration

[Bernhard Reiter]

Am Freitag, 16. Dezember 2005 16:03 schrieb Andreas Gungl:
> Am Freitag, 16. Dezember 2005 15:07 schrieb Thomas Spuhler:
> > On Thursday 15 December 2005 11:28 pm, lucas at swiftkenya.com wrote:

> > > I have been using kolab 1 for the past 1 year and the product has been
> > > excellent and our system has been up and running for the past year.
> > > unfortunately as it is with IT new challenges crop up all the time and
> > > I have realised it's time i moved over to Kolab 2 , My biggest
> > > challenge is how to do the changeover without adding the users afresh
> > > plus how do i copy all the users e-mail from kolab1 to 2.

> At first, have a look at slapcat / slapadd. Then create a test user on your
> Kolab 2 system. Compare the LDIF content to the Kolab 1 installation. Take
> care for differences. Write a little Perl script to tweak what's needed.
> Then do something like:
>
> slapcat > old.ldif
> cat old.ldif | your_script > new.ldif
> slapadd new.ldif
>
> I've migrated 50+ users without to enter them manually, however my Perl
> script is of course specific for our environment. So it won't help you.

Our wiki is very thirsty for migration report and experiences,
even your specific script might be an interesting example.

A scripting solution is also what I would propose.
One of our example user creation script can be found over the website
following the testing CVS link. This one is used to add simple users, though.

> To keep the e-mail, you can copy them from the old to the new system (but
> you would need to rebuild the indexes afterwards, which might be a pain).

cyrreconstruct can be your friend, if you get the permissions and folders 
right.

> This is the way I did it.
> You can let the users move them from the old account to the new one (given
> you can run both systems in parallel). Or you can use an IMAP sync
> solution. IIRC you would need to know the passwords in that case. Search
> the archive of this mailing list for details ...