| Migration to new server [message #71856] |
Mon, 19 July 2010 18:37  |
natediggs
Messages: 3
Registered: December 2009
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Hi Everyone,
I have a small Kerio server (about 15 users) that I want to move to another physical server over night one day this week. What is the best way to handle moving the data over? Can I simply just zip up the data directory and then move it over to the new server? If I do so, will all of the account info, including passwords stay the same?
I'd like the move to be as transparent as possible to the users.
Nate
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| Re: Migration to new server [message #71858 is a reply to message #71856] |
Tue, 20 July 2010 01:13  |
j.a.duke
Messages: 239
Registered: October 2006
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natediggs wrote on Mon, 19 July 2010 12:37Hi Everyone,
I have a small Kerio server (about 15 users) that I want to move to another physical server over night one day this week. What is the best way to handle moving the data over? Can I simply just zip up the data directory and then move it over to the new server? If I do so, will all of the account info, including passwords stay the same?
I'd like the move to be as transparent as possible to the users.
Nate
You'll also need the mailserver.cfg file, edited appropriately for the new store directory location.
There are a couple of other files (like your license) that need to be moved as well.
I think this is all documented in the manual and knowledgebase.
Cheers,
Jon
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| Re: Migration to new server [message #71860 is a reply to message #71858] |
Tue, 20 July 2010 01:28 |
natediggs
Messages: 3
Registered: December 2009
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I guess I don't ask questions on a forum to get answers that I can read in a manual. I know from the manual that I can do a full backup on the old server and a restore on the new one. What I was looking for on the forum was some insight into the best way to go about it. I can read anything in the manual or in the knowledge base. I can ask a question on the forum to get some insight from people who've actually done what I'm about to do.
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| Re: Migration to new server [message #71865 is a reply to message #71860] |
Tue, 20 July 2010 10:31 |
TorW
Messages: 44
Registered: November 2008
Location: Norway
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There is no "best way" to move a lot of files. There are simply too many parameters involved, and nobody wants to commit to an answer where nothing is known about the setup (and costs you nothing). Is the new server on the other side of a slow WAN link? Is it a different OS? What OS are the servers running anyway? Are you comfortable with rsync and all its incantations? File rights? Re-indexing? Backups?
We've moved message stores, single domains and single users from one physical storage to another, but it can take quite some time and is sort-of a balancing act unless the new server just sits in the same rack on the same subnet runnign the same OS.
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| Re: Migration to new server [message #123791 is a reply to message #71867] |
Fri, 28 August 2015 14:34 |
scottwilkins
Messages: 103
Registered: May 2006
Location: Tulsa, OK
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dingo wrote on Tue, 20 July 2010 10:52Hello,
I have used the information in this url:
http://support.kerio.com/index.php?_m=knowledgebase&_a=v iewarticle&kbarticleid=257
Has worked for me a few times.
Best regards,
Ingolfur
Well, time has come for me to do a server upgrade. However, this link no longer works. And searching the KB currently in place for Connect returns nothing on the best procedure for moving Kerio Connect from an old server to a new one. This seems to be a much needed KB article, why is it not front and center on the KB pages, at least under "Installation and Upgrades"
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