RE: [IMail Forum] IMail Upgradation Information

[Dan Horne]

Make a good backup of the Imail install directory and mailboxes, export the Imail registry, stop all services and go.  The upgrade is usually painless. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of E-Tech Support Sent: Friday, June 17, 2005 1:24 AM To: IMail_Forum@list.ipswitch.com Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] IMail Upgradation Information Hello, Thanks for the support. We don't have any mirror. We have only one single harddisk and now i m going upgrade the IMail Server. So let me tell how can i proceed?   with regards, Yogesh ----- Original Message ----- From: Shaun Mickey To: IMail_Forum@list.ipswitch.com Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 6:27 PM Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] IMail Upgradation Information Hello,   Whenever we do sever upgrades, we bring in one of our disks (from a mirrored set) install the disk in an exact replica of the hardware, run any upgrades/changes and note any problems or issues to watch when doing the actual install/upgrade.    We then take and put the disk back in the production server, sync the disk with the mirror, then take it back out and upgrade only the one disk first, so we have a live backup if something goes wrong.  Then we unplug the network cable and go to town, then shut down, install the second disk, boot and sync the disks and everything's a-ok.    Full backups are also a good thing to have when you do any major upgrades, but doing it like I just described and haven't had any major issues while upgrading, and if we did there's always the spare disk to just throw back in and try again another time.   Hope that helps, Shaun   ---------------------------------------------------------- Shaun Mickey 270net Technologies Phone: 301.865.9370 Fax: 301.865.9883 www.270net.com "Internet/Technology Solutions for Business and Government" ----------------------------------------------------------   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of E-Tech Support Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 1:18 AM To: IMail_Forum@list.ipswitch.com Subject: [IMail Forum] IMail Upgradation Information Hello, We have IMail 6.05 installed on our live commercial webserver. And now we are going to upgrad the same. Can anybody help me how can i do that? I have lot of live website and email ids on the server. So keeping the same settings, can i upgrade it? or otherwise what is the alternative? And suppose it has to done by down the server, how much will be the down time?   with regards, Sys Admin E-Tech Solutions Pvt. Ltd. India