Newbie, don't know how to upgrade

  Hi, i'm new with kolab so sorry if this is solved in other
place but
i can't find it.

  Since a week i've to administer a kolab server, this
server is having 
serious
hardware problems so the old admin installed centos 4.3 and
kolab 2.1 in a
completely different machine, now i've to move the mails and
accounts (this
could be done by hand as there are less than 50).
  My first handicap is that i've no idea of what kolab's
version is 
running the old
server, in the web gui it shows kolab2 but the rpm kolabd
package is 
1.9.4 with
OpenPKG 2.4.3??
  Second is that i don't know if i should upgrade this
machine (if the 
hardware let
me do it) and then rsync the kolab directory to the new
machine or what 
to do.
  I just want some guide to do it, i'm not looking for the
exact 
solution or a
step-by-step. Ah, we can't contact with the old admin and he
didn't 
wrote any
documentation....

  Thanks in advance and sorry for my english...


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On Nov 29, 2007 12:03 PM, José Carlos Mayor Holguin
<jcmayorcaritasvalladolid.es> wrote:
>
>   Hi, i'm new with kolab so sorry if this is solved in
other place but
> i can't find it.
>
>   Since a week i've to administer a kolab server, this
server is having
> serious
> hardware problems so the old admin installed centos 4.3
and kolab 2.1 in a
> completely different machine, now i've to move the
mails and accounts (this
> could be done by hand as there are less than 50).
>   My first handicap is that i've no idea of what
kolab's version is
> running the old
> server, in the web gui it shows kolab2 but the rpm
kolabd package is
> 1.9.4 with

Probably  a 2.0.x.
# openpkg rpm -qi kolabd
will give you the exact version of this package, then search
for this
version on the
kolab's ftp mirror.

When you are connected to the mirror, search for file
UPGRADING.20-21
on 2.1.x directory
and also 1st.README in 2.0.$  dir.
The last one will tell you what to do to upgrade to 2.0.4
and the
first one will be you Bible for some hours.
Also read keep an eye on the kolab's wiki about how to do
backup.

I suggest you to combine a backup restore procedure from
server to
server, with a data migration in between.
This is possible if the new one will take the name of the
old one.
You dont need to stop the OLD one, when your are testing
your
migration procedure!
Stop it before to do the last rsync before to switch !

- complete the bootstrap procedure on the new one, verify
you can
login, create users ... (use the  good hostname, you cannot
rename it
later)
- stop the new one
-  rsync your imap spool to the new one rsync -avz
/kolab/var/imapd/
rootnew:/kolab/var/imapd/
- copy the ssl certificate
- apply the upgrade procedure
- start the new one, test it
- when fine stop both kolab server do a last rsync, search
vor mail in
the SMTP queue ( find  /kolab/var/postfix/ )
  if so copy them, switch the ip address, update /etc/hosts,
start the new one.
Et voila!


> OpenPKG 2.4.3??
>   Second is that i don't know if i should upgrade this
machine (if the
> hardware let
> me do it) and then rsync the kolab directory to the new
machine or what
> to do.
>   I just want some guide to do it, i'm not looking for
the exact
> solution or a
> step-by-step. Ah, we can't contact with the old admin
and he didn't
> wrote any
> documentation....
>
>   Thanks in advance and sorry for my english...
>
>
> --
>  José Carlos Mayor Holguin       mailto:jcmayorcaritasvalladolid.es
>
>  CARITAS DIOCESANA DE VALLADOLID
>  Dept. Informática, Voz y Datos.
>  C/Santuario, 24b ( 47002 - VALLADOLID )
>  Tlfs.: 983 20 23 01 - 983 39 79 30           Fax: 983
39 67 26
>  Móvil: 654 39 08 37
>
> _______________________________________________
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>



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