v10 and v11 backup and restore

[gordontin]

Dear All

Could i use omcpoutu export mailbox data from
and after upgrade use omcpinu inport to v11scalix

[ScalixSupport]

Hi!

Have a look at the following post:
viewtopic.php?t=5458&highlight=omcpoutu+omcpinu

Thanks,
Subir

[Flish]

Yes you can, been doing this over the last two days.

Our scenario was that we were not only upgrading OS, but actually a whole clean new server install (Was 10.1 under Open Suse on old hardware, now 11 under Suse Enterprise 10 on new box with LVM setup), and we already had backups in an omcpoutu format.

Whilst the thread suggested may work, in our case I liked that nice psychological feeling of being all shiny new and clean, so did a clean 11 install, and bit by bit ran omcpinu to bring back the users. One lesson I did learn though, on big user files, make sure that the backup file is local to the server you are installing to.

Ours were on an cifs mounted NAS, and some of the larger backups were causing Scalix to lock up. I actually suspect it was an LVM as opposed to a scalix issue, but the fact was whilst the imports were running any form of access to the scalix LVM partition (Anything Sclix did!) was locking, as soon as I copied the dump files locally and rna I had success.

One or ther word of warning, message rules / filters, they won't have been backed up, which has really annoyed me, and I can't see a 'clean' way of doing it, so guesss what I'm doing today :-( See other post Scalix peeps, but appreciate it if a rules export could be added to the wishlist

[kanderson]

The rules are handled now too. As are Public folders.

In v11, use sxmboxexp/sxmboximp.

If I was to go through all that effort, I'd do them as PSTs, as exporting to PST, and reimporting will sometimes fix strange corruptions that omcpout/in doesn't fix.

[Flish]

The rules are handled now too. As are Public folders.

In v11, use sxmboxexp/sxmboximp.

Had a quick look at the man page,. that looks a lot nicer, and I think I might look into tying that in with my sxbackup script. To be clear, it says that it will export the 'entire' mailbox, that includes the rules, inbox, subfolders, custom folders, and premium folders, absolutley everything I would every want?

If I was to go through all that effort, I'd do them as PSTs, as exporting to PST, and reimporting will sometimes fix strange corruptions that omcpout/in doesn't fix.

Only Outlook install here is under VMWare on this Suse Desktop box, and that would have been tempting fate! That said, I've done a lot of client migrations via pst files, and the funny things that just happen, that I probably wouldn't have considered it internally if it had been a better option. A matter of trust, at least I can see that omcpinu is doing something, I get panicky when Outlook 'Stops Responding' I have to force myself to leave it alone!

[kanderson]

A migration (say from Exchange or Groupwise) is TOTALLY different than what you are doing, which is Scalix to Scalix.

[Flish]

A migration (say from Exchange or Groupwise) is TOTALLY different than what you are doing, which is Scalix to Scalix.

True, but given the choice of leaving Outlook and it's ever so delicate PST files out of it I think I would have! Don't get me wrong, I think Outlook's great, at everything, except the way it deals with email just rubs me up the wrong way. Calendaring and Contacts, brilliant.