Hutger H. wrote:
> Hi Doug,
> 
> I had the same problem before. First I tried to make a copy of the
> service related directories and files to the "slave" server and tried to
> start the service. After lots of errors and gave up.
> I solved doing exactly what you thought ... I installed on the new
> server the qmail, vpopmail, etc and after that I did the rsync of
> /home/vpopmail, /var/qmail, etc.
> 
> Maybe someone else had the same problem and got a better solution ... guys?
> 
> Hutger.


Regarding data, the main things you want to back up are:

/var/qmail/users
/var/qmail/control
/home/vpopmail/domains

You do NOT want to copy /var/qmail/queue, as the queue's files are tied
tied to inode numbers on the disk.  There is a script available that can
renumber the queue files, but in my experience, it didn't work and the
queue was corrupted.

Regards,

Bill

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