Migration Scalix 11 FC5 to RHEL4

[andreas]

I want to migrate Scalix 11 from a FC5 System to RHEL4 but the scalix-installer doesn`t found the messagestore.

My first attempt:
I had copy the messagestore via rsync ( rsync -a -v /var/opt/ root@192.168.200.203:/var/opt/) to the new rhel4 host and start the installer but scalix doesn`t found the messagestore.

My second attempt:
The same steps as above but i change the owner of /var/opt/scalix to user id 100 and group id 101 i get the same result as above.

maybe the community can help me to resolve the problem

Andreas

[mito]

I'm in the middle of rewritting this page as I go through a 2-stage upgrade of my system (using the same box, so took it down one night to do the OS install, upgrade the OS etc, and download all the installers, and then the next night (which is planned to be tomorrow night) will be the installing of Scalix etc.) but my writeup seems to be what you are doing:

http://mitopia.net/index.php/Scalix_on_CentOS

I originally wrote it based on my multiple test-upgrades, but am going through an entire rewrite as I do my production upgrade just to make sure everything is there. Note that this is on CentOS, but CentOS and RHEL4 are the exact same systems, so there should be no difference really.

Hope it helps... feel free to add some notes if you need to etc. Once I have it finalized with my final upgrade I plan to move it to the community area of the official Scalix wiki...

Mito

[ScalixSupport]

Hi Mito,

In the Restore section, I would like you to add a line saying create a user and group "scalix"
with same UID and GID respectively as that existed in the previous server.

Thanks,
Subir

[andreas]

user id 100 and group id 101 is exact the same id as on the old scalix system

[mito]

Hi Mito,

In the Restore section, I would like you to add a line saying create a user and group "scalix"
with same UID and GID respectively as that existed in the previous server.

Done, thanks for the addition...

user id 100 and group id 101 is exact the same id as on the old scalix system

I believe rsync needs the user account to exist before you copy the contents over, so now that you have already tried to install scalix once (and thus have the account created) I would try uninstalling all of scalix, copying over the old message store again (either via rsync or tar, your choice) and then try reinstalling again. Make sure to use the command options in rsync to preserve all permissions etc.

Mito

[joaster]

Hi Mito,

I would like to have some guidance on how to migrate from FC5 to CentOS 5 but I can find the document you wrote (see quote). Can you help me with this?

http://mitopia.net/index.php/Scalix_on_CentOS ... Once I have it finalized with my final upgrade I plan to move it to the community area of the official Scalix wiki...

Regards Joost.

[mito]

Hi Mito,

I would like to have some guidance on how to migrate from FC5 to CentOS 5 but I can find the document you wrote (see quote). Can you help me with this?

http://mitopia.net/index.php/Scalix_on_CentOS ... Once I have it finalized with my final upgrade I plan to move it to the community area of the official Scalix wiki...

Regards Joost.

Yeah, my webserver is down at the moment. Something about server upgrades, etc. It should be back up reasonably soon, I'm hoping by the end of the weekend. Nothing I can do to speed it up though...

Do note that my docs are for CentOS 4.4 though, as CentOS 5 wasn't released when I wrote it.

Mito

[SidebandSamurai]

Mito

Tried to log into your website this afternoon and found it down. Is it still down or were you working on it when I tried to connect.

Sincerely,

Sideband Samurai

[florian]

I assume when you tried to move your message store from one machine to the other, you were already using Scalix 11, correct?

Did the two machines have the same hostname?

If not, you will also have to copy the /etc/opt/scalix/instance.cfg config file over from the old machine so that the installer knows what subdirectory of /var/opt/scalix to look at for the message store. This 2-letter subdirectory name is derived from the machine's hostname (first and last character of the short hostname) at installtion time. You could also rename this or use the --instance switch of the installer to use an alternative name.

When changing hostnames, you should also be aware that other things in the message store will need to change - check out the How-To at http://wiki.scalix.com

cheers,
Florian.

[mito]

Mito

Tried to log into your website this afternoon and found it down. Is it still down or were you working on it when I tried to connect.

Sincerely,

Sideband Samurai

After it was apparent that my old host wasn't considering it a priority to get it up and running, I finally got him to give me a database backup and restored my site to a new host. It's finally up and running and fully functional. Sorry to those that were relying on it to be there... this should never happen again as this time it's hosted on a paid hosting service (rather than a free service as it was originally).

Again... my apologies...

Mito