Zentyal Forum, Linux Small Business Server
Zentyal Server => Installation and Upgrades => Topic started by: bob@brandt.ie on January 31, 2013, 12:08:13 pm
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Lets take the following hypothetical situation:
I have a bog standard Zentyal 3.0 box running in production on an old server, but we want to migrate it to a new server. (it is both a file and mail server)
Is there a tools or a guide that can explain how to do this? I'm assuming I could just build the new server, then just copy the files over?
Should I use the Import/Export Configuration option? Then what about the data?
How about doing a Backup and Restore?
Is it possible to just migrate the mail (including calendar, notes and contacts) and nothing else?
Bob
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Clonezilla might be what you are after. Take an "on the metal" backup and then restore it on a bare server. Redo might work as well and has a much more friendly GUI. It is possible to port over the email,calendars etc but you run into the UID problem. I recommend the full backup method first. If that fails the next thing I would try is to use Zentyal config backup and restore. Then copy the /var/lib/mysql directory over to get all of the Zarafa stuff. The files served up by Samba should be tar ed copied over and untarred.