New server

[Roy Hoobler]

It ended up they put a new drive in for the Kolab partition as well so I 
started with a mount of an image of the old partition in a different place.

I first put a fresh version (the 2.0 version) of Kolab we had before and 
started obmtool.  I opened another shell and looked at the passwd file to see 
if the kolab users (kolab, kolab-n, and kolab-r) were there.  It took quite 
awhile and I thought about stopping but they eventually showed up.  I then 
stopped the install.

Then, from the old image I copied (cp -r -f -p *) the old files into 
the /kolab directory and ran /kolab/bin/openpkg rc all start

Everything worked perfect!!  35 minutes (after being down 14 hours) and we 
were back in business.  Kolab is great in this respect.  My client was very 
impressed.  I had to wait quite a while for the hosting company to bring back 
up the server.

I guess we were lucky they "mirrored" the old drive so the permissions stayed 
intact.  My main concern was resetting everything - didn't have to :)

Thanks everyone (especially Thomas) for your help.

Roy


On Wednesday 25 January 2006 01:14 pm, Thomas Arendsen Hein wrote:
> * Iñaki <ibc2 at euskalnet.net> [20060125 18:55]:
> > El Miércoles, 25 de Enero de 2006 18:47, Thomas Arendsen Hein escribió:
> > > Move your existing /kolab out of the way, run obmtool. You can abort
> > > installation as soon as the first package was installed. This
> > > creates the three kolab users (kolab, kolab-r, kolab-n) and some
> > > files in /etc.
> >
> > Be carefull if you try to reinstall Kolab in the same machine. Before it
> > delete kolab, kolab-r and kolab-n users and groups. Without doing it
> > you'll have problems to reinstall Kolab.
>
> As his / directory is gone, these users are probably gone.
>
> But I'm curious, what problems did you notice? I never had any
> problems with this, neither with already existing users on the local
> machine, nor with kolab/kolab-r/kolab-n manually created before on
> the NIS server.
>
> Thomas

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