RE: [cobalt-users] CMU Questions

[Robert Fitzpatrick <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

>The questions:
>Is it worth attempting to use CMU?  Keep in mind that the 
>sites need to stay
>live until installed and tested on the new box.  I know that the CMU
>requires that all Vsites and sendmail be stopped while it's 
>Tar'ing, and
>that's ok, but not for days on end.
>

Take a look at http://www.dnid.de/cobalt/raqbackup/. It will do mysqldump
for you and transfer. I use it as disaster recovery to another RaQ. It uses
CMU to transfer the sites. Just unload them on the new RaQ and use
ServerAlias for each site in the http.conf file to test each site. If your
HOME site is myhomesite.com, then add a ServerAlias to each site in the
httpd.conf file as whatever.myhomesite.com. Make sure you have a wildcard in
the DNS for myhomesite.com. It should work fine.

Hope that helps:)
--
Robert