I believe so (yes), as long as the database schema hasn't changed. Can
you tell which version is "very old"?
Patrick Ring wrote:
Should it be able to restore a backup done from a very old version on to
a fresh loaded version?
I have a snapshot from just after qtp being loaded and before migration
attempts.
Good.
After I transfer the queue to the old server (so I can get
mail online again for a short while), I'll roll back to that snapshot
and take a screen cap or two when I try that again.
Sounds good.
Thank you.
NP
-----Original Message-----
From: news [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Eric Shubert
Sent: 2009-05-03 14:31
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [qmailtoaster] Big problems after old-to-new qmt migrate
Patrick Ring wrote:
The problem with qtp-newmodel was on the old server (VERY out of date
... QmailToaster from early 2005 (I don't know which version), and
CentOS 4.2 [yum] upgraded to 4.7) was that it kept errorring out on
building packages for clamav. When I told it to skip that (later
attempt), it then wanted to install the kernel-smp-devel. So, after
it fails again, I tried to do a basic 'yum install kernel-smp-devel'
and get "Nothing to do". I went to DaagWieers and made sure my repos
were up to date and tried again... "Nothing to do". By then I was
just wanting to get a migration done (to the new, more stable
equipment), so I started a backup in order to follow through with a
restore (even though the versions are years apart).
Backup seemed to work fine on the old server (CentOS 4.7 w/ QMT
~2005), but when I went to restore it to the new load of CentOS 5.2
and the latest QMT (loaded last month...recent qtp-newmodel), it got
caught in a loop looking for something that it though didn't exist.
It'd be nice you could reproduce this error (on a clean COS5 toaster) so
we could fix whatever the problem is. qtp-restore doesn't have any
issues that we're (I'm) aware of.
After it
showing this error repeatedly (didn't write it down) for :30, I killed
it, restored a snapshot, and tried a manual migration.
Thank you,
Patrick Ring
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