I want to move my home server over to a new machine, both running CentOS. (The present server is running CentOS-5.7, the new one 6.0.) I'm thinking of moving things over one at a time, starting with email. I'm running IMAP on the server, with my email in ~/Maildir/ . I'm wondering what exactly I need to copy to the new machine? Any help or suggestions gratefully received. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College Dublin
On 11/30/2011 06:36 AM Timothy Murphy wrote:> I want to move my home server over to a new machine, > both running CentOS. > (The present server is running CentOS-5.7, the new one 6.0.) > I'm thinking of moving things over one at a time, > starting with email. > I'm running IMAP on the server, > with my email in ~/Maildir/ . > I'm wondering what exactly I need to copy to the new machine? > > Any help or suggestions gratefully received.If it were me, I'd copy the entire old machine (running 5.7) over to the new machine so that after the copy it was also running 5.7, then upgrade the new machine to 6.0. ...unless you like making things more complicated than they need to be.
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 5:36 AM, Timothy Murphy <gayleard at eircom.net> wrote:> I want to move my home server over to a new machine, > both running CentOS. > (The present server is running CentOS-5.7, the new one 6.0.) > I'm thinking of moving things over one at a time, > starting with email. > I'm running IMAP on the server, > with my email in ~/Maildir/ . > I'm wondering what exactly I need to copy to the new machine?If you can run both machines during the conversion, I'd bring up the new one, then rsync over the home directories and any other data, making sure the related applications work. If you make changes to the IMAP server, there is an imapcopy utility that will move all mail to a different type of server - or for a few accounts you can just recreate the folder structure from a client, connect to both accounts and drag the messages over, letting the servers take care of the storage/formatting details. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com