Can I..

[hackerpitbull]

I'll move my server to a new server farm soon, is there a way to copy all zonefiles to another server that will use my old IP's and make the zone file's transfer to my new IP's in the new server farm? (less downtime untill dns will reset)

 

[matrixx]

Yup - I did this a while back - just got to get all users/resellers etc setup identically and then copy across the new zone files to the old machine. (take a backup of the old zone files just in case)

There are some other things to make sure it goes smoothly - if you suspend all accounts on the old machine AFTER copying everything across - then re-copy across the mail and sql etc then unsuspend the old machine again - all DB's will be up to date and no mail should have got lost (except mail sent to the old server while it was suspended)

Rob

 

[hackerpitbull]

Yup - I did this a while back - just got to get all users/resellers etc setup identically and then copy across the new zone files to the old machine. (take a backup of the old zone files just in case)

There are some other things to make sure it goes smoothly - if you suspend all accounts on the old machine AFTER copying everything across - then re-copy across the mail and sql etc then unsuspend the old machine again - all DB's will be up to date and no mail should have got lost (except mail sent to the old server while it was suspended)

Rob

Tnx Rob, but i use co-location, I have my own server..
I'm hosting my server now in my friend's 22U he rent's from the server farm..

So what i want to do is to move my server to the new server farm, configure one of his DA servers to use my old IP's and copy my domain's zone files to his server, then modify the zone ifles so they will redirect to the new IP's.

So there is a downtime for a few hours (moving the server)..

But how can i do it? what files should i copy and modify?

 

[matrixx]

The way we did it relies on both servers being on at the same time.

I suppose you could firstly move everything over to his DA server, reseller account by reseller account - then configure your server to point all zone files to his. Then once all is working well switch the nameserver IP's and leave it for a couple of days until everything is on his - then move your server at your leisure and do the same again.

I believe it's named.conf you'll need to copy over (plus mail and DB's) a search on the forums will give you the full paths - and this will only work if there are no other doamins on the server if not you can configure each domains IP etc manually which is a bit of a pain.

Someone may know a faster way of doing it - maybe write a script.

Rob