gonzalomassa
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Hi
I know this has been asked before, but the solutions I've found to move emails implies transferring a backup from DirectAdmin and I can't do that because the server has 10G of emails and no such free space to create a backup (I've tried but it gives me a full disk error).
Both servers are VPS on the same hosting provider so I think there will be no problem on transferring 10G of data between them using scp, the problem is I'm not an expert on how e-mail are stored and how can I transfer it manually, that's why I'll ask the following questions.
- Can I transfer all e-mail accounts just by copiyng files and folders?
- Which ones should I copy?
- The new server doesn't have any account configured yet, do I have to create them first, or just by copying the files also make the accounts show up on the server?
- Should I reconfigure any permissions or ownership on the copied files?
- What's the best method to switch from one server to another without losing new messages? I unterstand there will be a window of time where the dns will propagate to the new server, so any new messages will arrive to one server then to the other.
I think that's all the questions I have for now, some info on the servers:
Current server:
CentOS 5.11
DirectAdmin 1.55.0
custombuild 1.2.43
Exim 4.76
dovecot 2.2.15
New server:
centos-7.3-x86_64
DirectAdmin 1.55.0
custombuild 2.0.0 (rev: 2005)
Exim 4.92
dovecot 2.3.4.1
Thank you and pardon my english
I know this has been asked before, but the solutions I've found to move emails implies transferring a backup from DirectAdmin and I can't do that because the server has 10G of emails and no such free space to create a backup (I've tried but it gives me a full disk error).
Both servers are VPS on the same hosting provider so I think there will be no problem on transferring 10G of data between them using scp, the problem is I'm not an expert on how e-mail are stored and how can I transfer it manually, that's why I'll ask the following questions.
- Can I transfer all e-mail accounts just by copiyng files and folders?
- Which ones should I copy?
- The new server doesn't have any account configured yet, do I have to create them first, or just by copying the files also make the accounts show up on the server?
- Should I reconfigure any permissions or ownership on the copied files?
- What's the best method to switch from one server to another without losing new messages? I unterstand there will be a window of time where the dns will propagate to the new server, so any new messages will arrive to one server then to the other.
I think that's all the questions I have for now, some info on the servers:
Current server:
CentOS 5.11
DirectAdmin 1.55.0
custombuild 1.2.43
Exim 4.76
dovecot 2.2.15
New server:
centos-7.3-x86_64
DirectAdmin 1.55.0
custombuild 2.0.0 (rev: 2005)
Exim 4.92
dovecot 2.3.4.1
Thank you and pardon my english