Start from scratch

[cfisher at ssrecords.us]

I recently did the exact same thing, but in my case I did have another  
server to play/test with.
You may want to look at http://wiki.kolab.org/index.php/Backups_for_kolab2
The only variations I would mention is to make a backup of  
/kolab/var/openldap/openldap-data/DB_CONFIG file. If you follow those  
steps it gets deleted, and LDAP does not like running without it.

And you must bootstrap the system before restoring it.

Good luck!

Quoting Troy Carpenter <troy at carpenter.cx>:

> I want to take my already-running system, which is modified slightly from the
> source distribution for apache and php, and reinstall from source to get the
> system to a known state.  I would like to retain all my data in the process.
>
> Here's my idea.  First, shut everything down then move my existing /kolab
> directory out of the way.  Recreate the /kolab directory and reinstall from
> scratch.
>
> After the install and bootstrap is done, shut everything down again and copy
> over my previous /kolab/var directory into the new install.  Fix any template
> changes in /etc/kolab/templates and reconfigure.  Restart.
>
> I am expecting this to preserve all my email and other settings  
> while having a
> clean install to verify Horde works in absence of my changes.
>
> And no, I don't have an extra server to do this on.  This is a small volume
> server run for less than 10 users.
>
> Any input?
>