Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: backup question

[Maxwell Smart]

On 06/27/2012 06:27 PM, Eric Shubert wrote: On 06/27/2012 05:14 PM, Cecil Yother, Jr. wrote: I have two servers, server A and server B. They are both Centos 5.8, built on the V2gnu iso. They are basically identical with all updates. I have about a dozen e mail domains on server A and 2 e mail domains on server B. Can I run the qtp-backup on server B and restore those on server A so that all my mail domains reside on one server? TIA -- Not without a bit of modification. The backup is ok, but qtp-restore is written load from scratch. With a bit of tweaking you should be able to get it to do a non-destructive restore. The database load would need to be changed to merge the backup in with the existing database, as would various control files such as rcpthosts, morercpthosts, virtualdomains, and the users/assign file (and don't forget the cdb file for that one). That would be a nice feature for qtp-restore actually, have it ask if you want to add the domains to the existing configuration or clean out the existing configurations. It might be simpler to create the domains manually though, write a script to add the users to the target host (or add them manually too), then simply rsync /home/vpopmail/domains/ from the old to the new host. This would be the safest route I'm guessing. You could test out the target after doing the initial rsync, then do a final rsync (which would be fast) when you're ready to cut over. OK,  I chose the easy solution.  I created the accounts on the machine with existing accounts, created a new account in Thunderbird and copied the mail from the old account to the new account.  This went rather quickly and was relatively painless. Is Unison as described in the wiki still the recommended way of creating a failover / duplicate server?  Is rsync an option? --