RE: RE: [cobalt-users] RaQ4 - moving sites between raq's

["Tim Skipper" <mailinglists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dan/Bruce - again thanks. Very helpful information there.

I'm thinking out loud here, shout if I'm missing anything.

Transferring sites/users: Use the CMU
Transferring DNS: Copy/edit /etc/records file

What about e-mail residing on the server that hasn't been collected
prior to the changeover?

I can keep both RaQ's running for a week or so, so I can put a hold on
ftp uploads, migrate the sites/users/dns and wait for it to propogate
before switching off the old one.

But there's the middle-ground of while it's mid-propogation, the
domain names are highly unlikely to all propogate over at the same
time so I will find myself in the position where there is new mail
waiting on the old server after the DNS has propogated and all my
users' connection settings are now pointing at the new server.  Can I
move this easily too?

Regards,
Tim Skipper

-----Original Message-----
From: cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Bruce
Timberlake
Sent: 18 June 2002 17:08
To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: RE: [cobalt-users] RaQ4 - moving sites between raq's


> Looks like just what I need then, thanks.  I note from the
> release notes that it does not migrate DNS entries.  Is there an
> easy way of doing this manually, other than retyping the DNS
> entries into the admin screen (don't fancy doing that with over
> 100 domains hosted!).

Copy/FTP the /etc/records file to the new server.  /etc/records is a
Cobalt-specific file that contains "meta-data" about all your domains.

Edit the file to make whatever IP address changes you need, etc.

Then in the web UI, click the "Save Changes" button on the main
Control
Panel screen - it parses the /etc/records file and creates all the
pri.whatever files, etc.

On the server you're migrating off of, do the same thing - remove the
domains no longer hosted on the original server from /etc/records, and
re-parse.

I'm not near a RaQ right now to look up the actual script name, but
you
could manually run the CGI that the "Save Changes" button executes and
achieve the same result.

--
Bruce Timberlake
Sun Cobalt Technology Engineer
Sun Microsystems, Inc.

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