upgrading from version 2.1.0 to 2.2.0

[Alain Spineux]

On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 7:01 AM, Darcy Brodie <darcy at canasc.ca> wrote:
> Due to hardware problems, I am in the process of re-installing my Kolab
> installation.  However, I have been unable to sucessfully  backup the users,
> address book, Distribution Lists, and emails from the old system (version
> 2.1, on CentOS) and import it into a new installation (version 2.2.0, on
> CentOS 5.1)  I have followed the instructions at
> http://wiki.kolab.org/index.php/Backups_for_kolab2, and attempted to restore
> on the new system, but that only caused ldap to not start..

You must mix information from the "Backups_for_kolab2" and
the "upgrade procedure" from the README distributed with the sources.

>
> I have even tried to do the restore 1 step at a time (starting with the
> mailboxlist).  Upon re-starting Kolab (via "/kolab/bin/openpkg rc all
> restart" and that failing desired result, restarting the computer) it did
> not import any of the users
>
>
> Question.  Is it possible to backup the data from the previous version, and
> restore it to the new system?  Or am I going to have to re-enter all the
> information by hand?  I do not trust the hardware that the original Kolab
> installation is on, and I need to get it off of there as soon as possible
>
>
> Thanks for your assistance
>
> Darcy
>
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