Transfer to new server

[Gunnar Wrobel]

Quoting Paul Douglas Franklin <pdf at yugm.org>:

> When I set up my kolab box 3 years ago, I made some mistakes and want to
> start relatively fresh.  Here is my hoped-for process:
>
> 1)  Create a brand-new install of kolab on a new box.
> 2)  Add my domains and other items as needed on the settings page.
> 3)  (on the old server) /kolab/sbin/slapcat-l kolab-ldap.ldif and edit
> the .ldif file down to just the users I want to transfer.
> 4)  (on the new server) /kolab/sbin/slapadd -l kolab-ldap.ldif
> 5)  rsync /kolab/var/imapd/spool from old to new.
> 6)  (as kolab-r on the old box) /kolab/bin/ctl_mboxlist -d >mailboxlist.txt.
> 7)  (as kolab-r on the new box) /kolab/bin/ctl_mboxlist -u <mailboxlist.txt
>
> This is not going so well.  I have two concerns.  The first is that when
> I ran slapcat -l on the new server to verify what I had put in there
> (prior to trying slapadd), it seems to have given Horde a problem.  The
> Horde login screen is blank--when I go to https://FQDN/client, it brings
> up https://FQDN/client/imp/login.php with a blank screen.  Horde was
> fine immediately before I ran slapcat.

As Gavin mentioned you should try to see if killing your cookies fixes  
that particular problem.

If not, I'd like to know if there is anything in  
/kolab/var/kolab/www/client/log/* that indicates what kind of error  
might have occured.

>
> The second is that I see on the "Backups for Kolab 2" wiki that I should
> back up annotations.db.  I don't see a way to do this other than by
> copying, and there are changes from old to new such that I doubt that a
> simple copy would do the job.

You should be able to transform the database into a plain text file  
similar to what you did with the mailbox file. And you should transfer  
it because otherwise you will loose the information which folders  
contain events, addresses, tasks etc.

Cheers,

Gunnar

>
> Is what I'm trying possible, and does anyone have answers for my two
> concerns?
>
> --Paul
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