Upgrading OS and Scalix

[rfulgado]

Hi All,

We are currently trying to upgrade our server, hardware and it's OS. It is currently using Fedora Core 4 with Scalix 10.
Yeah I know, our OS is ancient. Anyway, I already have Centos 5.6 and Scalix 11.4.6 installed on a replacement server.

I am just doing a dry run of moving the mailboxes to the new server. Every night, a script runs to create a backup
of all mailboxes using omcpoutu. I scp those files to the new server and run omcpinu on each backup file.
I got "Internal problem detected, see the log files" on a few files.

Is this the right way to go to get to Scalix 11.4.6?
And where are these 'log files' located.
I am running 'omscan -Aafvx' right now. And will try to do omcpoutu again tomorrow.
Hopefully, tonight's backup wont produce "internal problem detected" when I rerun omcpinu.

Any suggestions is very much appreciated.
Thank you all.

[rfulgado]

Sorry, I forgot to post the second line of the error. here is the complete message:

omcpinu : Internal problem detected, see the log files
[OM.PM 3011] Unexpected EOF from input.

Thank you.

[les]

wow! scalix 10 still in use!

Its been a very long time since i've done scalix upgrades and cross platform. If i cast my thoughts back i think the best way is thus.....

on the new server, remove scalix. start clean.
rsync ONLY /var/opt/scalix from the old to the new server.
run the scalix installer (11.4.6), doing a typical installation. It should detect your old mailstore and upgrade it.

There are specific upgrade notes in the release notes and many other posts in the forums on this too.

[echelon]

YOu probably want to either stop scalix on the source machine before copying data or create a LVM snapshot 1st (if FC4 supports it.)

Also, if you install Scalix 11 and it does NOT detect the migrated data (and instead creates a new mail store), you should be able to specify the correct data path (OMDATADIR) in /etc/opt/scalix/instance.cfg/ I did this when I had a 2nd scalix 11 server set up that I used to read data restored from tape.

I vaguely recall that at some point omcpinu and omcpoutu broke on me. It may have been after upgrading to Scalix 11. Which is why I had to change to the 2ndary server for data recovery.

[rfulgado]

Thank you to those that gave some insights on how to deal with mu dilemma.

I don't have LVM on FC4 so I can not do a snapshot.
I will try the les' suggestion.

Thank you. At least I have something to go on from. I will let you know how it went.

Thanks again guys.

[rfulgado]

I am curious, with Scalix 10, is there a way to convert mailboxes to unix mbox format?

Thanks

[echelon]

NOt as far as I know. You would probably be better off using a command line tool that can access the mailbox via IMAP protocol. I used a tool called imapsync in the past to move mail between different types of mail server as an IMAP-to-IMAP transfer. It may do IMAP-to-text. It might not be a free download anymore.

[echelon]

Have a look at this thread as well.

http://www.scalix.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=14683&p=94078#p94078

[rfulgado]

Thanks for your prompt reply echelon. I will look later if that tool is available.
BTW, running omscan on all mailboxes fixes my initial problem. Only hitch is
it takes 5 hours to import all the mailboxes to the new server. We don't
have a lot of account, only 30, most are pop accounts and a few are imap.


Thanks

[rfulgado]

I have to keep the old scalix 10 server running but with a different hostname and ip address.

I found this FAQ:
http://www.scalix.com/wiki/index.php?title=HowTos/ChangeFQDN

Can use most of the scripts in there? I know the scalix 10 does not use the instance name
and I can adjust the scripts accordingly.

Thanks