Site Migration which files?

[Alex Chejlyk]

Alex Chejlyk wrote:
> Thomas Arendsen Hein wrote:
>   
>> * Alex Chejlyk <alex at swiftnetcomputers.biz> [20060808 00:32]:
>>   
>>     
>>> I want to move our whole 24 Gb kolab site from one system to another.
>>> What is the best way to do this?
>>>     
>>>       
>> (I'm assuming an OpenPKG based installation)
>>
>> You have to provide more details about which kind of system you
>> have: Are processor type and operating system (including version)
>> identical?
>>
>> If they are:
>> 1. Install kolab on the new system using obmtool
>>    (bootstrap isn't needed)
>> 2. I recommend to stop your running kolab server
>> 3. Use "rsync -avPH" to copy the /kolab directory to the new system
>>
>> Otherwise you have to provide more details.
>>
>> Thomas
>>
>>   
>>     
> Thanks for the info, but the systems are different.
>
> The old system OpenPKG built from source on a Mandrake 10 system.
> New system Debian Sarge 3.1, will preferably be built from OpenPKG using
> the deb files.
>
> The processors are both amd - 32bit.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Alex
>
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In case anybody else runs into the same situation, I migrated the mail 
accounts using imapsync.

The procedure was:
Setup new Kolab server, setup accounts on new server.
Install and run imapsync

Cheers,

Alex