Any experience in migrating your "in a box" setup from a PPC to an Intel mini? What I have in mind is to build everything anew, but I'd like to have the mailboxes & their contents transfered over. How have you handled this?
I've done that to setup a test system on my new Intel mini. Just create a tar of /usr/local/virtual and untar it on the new machine. It's just datafiles which don't notice anything of the CPU.
Databases I don't recall that well, I could have just copied the data directory or did I use a mysqldump. Make a dump and then copy the data directory, if it doesn't work you can import the dump.
You need to re-compile all the binaries, but as you must have seen the different ./configure instructions for intel and powerpc this isn't going to be much of a problem. You can copy all the configuration files you had and re-use them.
If you want to you can include a spam-filter as well, I'm almost finished. Other people are already evaluating the documentation.
02 Nov 2006
Any experience in migrating your "in a box" setup from a PPC to an Intel mini? What I have in mind is to build everything anew, but I'd like to have the mailboxes & their contents transfered over. How have you handled this?
Regards,
David
02 Nov 2006
Databases I don't recall that well, I could have just copied the data directory or did I use a mysqldump. Make a dump and then copy the data directory, if it doesn't work you can import the dump.
You need to re-compile all the binaries, but as you must have seen the different ./configure instructions for intel and powerpc this isn't going to be much of a problem. You can copy all the configuration files you had and re-use them.
If you want to you can include a spam-filter as well, I'm almost finished. Other people are already evaluating the documentation.