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Re: [cobalt-users] 550 to 550 migration nightmare

> I need to move approx 180 sites, and 300-odd users
> from one raq550 to another
>
> I ran cmu 2.53 using raqbackup, but the import on the
> new machine crashed in the final stages with checksum
> errors (for some reason it was trying to read php
> files from a site and throwing up checksum errors?
> very odd) so some of the vsite files didn't get
> restored properly, and there doesn't seem to be any
> way of determining which sites didn't import properly.
>
> The major problem is openwebmail. this puts a symlink
> from mbox to saved-messages in the users mail folder,
> but when the cmu runs it doesn't give the sites and
> users the same number. There's got to be a better way
> than changing 300 symlinks by hand. I tried
> re-installing openwebmail, but the old symlinks stayed
> as they were. The 550 directory structure doesn't
> exactly lend itself to wilcard matching.
>
> is there another way of moving 550 data to another
> machine? what directories would have to be copied?
>
> Any ideas would be appreciated


Just delete the symlinks on the new server.  Then when they use OpenWebmail
again they will be recreated properly.


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Ken Marcus
Precision Web Hosting
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http://www.precisionweb.net