HowTos/Migrate Scalix

Scalix Wiki -> How-Tos -> Migrate Scalix to a new server

For one reason or another I have had to re-install our scalix server a few times now and manually adding the user credentials, email addresses and the such has been quite boring. We are looking to move to a bigger server now and i have the task of doing it again.

70 users, some limited, over 100 email addresses - its going to take a while.

I have created a small script that echo's the user settings out.

Used in conjunction with the sxmboxexport script elsewhere on this wiki the migration will be much quicker.

   NEWMAILNODENAME=mail
   SXDIR=/opt/scalix/bin
   for i in $(${SXDIR}/omshowu -m all | cut -d "/" -f 1 | sed -e 's: $::g' -e 's/ /\//g'); do
       USER=`printf "$i" | sed -e 's:/: :g'`
       ADDRESSES=IA
       PARAMS=
       USERD=`${SXDIR}/omshowu -n "${USER}"`
       if [ `echo $USERD | grep "User Class : Limited" |wc -l` == 1 ];
       then
           PARAMS=$PARAMS" --class limited"
       fi
       for g in $(echo $USERD | grep -o "<[[:alnum:][:graph:]]*@[[:alnum:][:graph:]]*>"); do
          ADDRESSES=$ADDRESSES"="\"${USER}\"" "$g
       done
       echo ${SXDIR}/omaddu -n \'${USER}/${NEWMAILNODENAME}/${ADDRESSES}\' $PARAMS
   done

• Please note the NEWMAILNODENAME needs to be set to your new mailnode.

To use this script paste it into a file called dumpscript.sh then execute the script:

    sh dumpscript.sh | import.sh

After copying the file to the new installation (scalix MUST be installed and working first) execute the import.sh script.

What the script exports:

• User name
• User level (i.e. full/limited)
• User email addresses

What the script doesn't set or export:

• Login name - [[1]]
• Password - unextractable (AFAIK)
• Smartcache enabled/disabled
• User specific company details - position etc
• Add to global mailbox check - not part of omaddu (AFAIK)
• export user mailboxes (yet)