Re: [cobalt-users] CMU (miagration question)

["John D. Gorena" <Support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

cobalt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Hey John,
> Thank you for all the useful help and your notes!
>
> I was wondering if email gave you any trouble as I saw in the
> CMU manual that the mail spool is not moved, but moves the mail
> to the user home directory. Is a new mail spool then created with the
> propper sym links to the home directories as the siteIDs are recreated on
> the new webraq?
>
> Also, I wonder how the CMU tool makes the sites so small. I.E- the /home
> partition uses 800Megs and after I cmuExported it the export directory was
> 200Megs. I didn't think tar and gz could compress at that ratio! Not
> complianing, hope it works :)
>
> Hope this makes sense and thanks again!
>
> Ashby

Ashby,

The E-mail spool is moved.  The reason that you want to shut email down is so that
your clients do not get anymore mail.  The senders to your clients will get a
non-delivery message and then when the new server is up, the E-mail will start being
delivered.  This is a good feature so that your clients do not miss e-mail without
anyone knowing..

It does compress.

Good Luck,

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John D. Gorena
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