daniel wrote: > Well, because it's so easy to setup why don't you do it from te beginning with the new toaster ?
Hi daniel, are you serious? To be honest, I did exactly that with v0.8.8. After the HD-crash I installed v0.8.7 on the same but quite old and rather slow machine. I just put a new HD in and installed the major packages of v.0.8.7 as needed for smtp/pop plus SpamAssassin and ClamAV. I did it on the fly without really knowing WHAT I was doing - just following the instructions of the toaster. When the new machine arrived a few days later I noticed that the toaster had changed to v0.8.8, and since it was a new machine I decided to go with this version. I wrote my own shell scripts to automate most of the installation (to be re-used on my backup system and a test environmet in a VM on my PC). With bash it's quite easy to save/restore the entire vpopmail environment/settings. I even managed to transfer the qmail-queue by using queue_repair.py. But I'm still everything but a Linux or qmail guru. Nevertheless I can't see why I should go this way again when I have a healthy running system and just want to do some updates. Oh, and I haven't got a spare PC/Server either. And having about 50 virtual domains I don't want to have the system down too long, since having complaining customers on the phone is not one of the things I really like. Well, I'll just go through the update on my VM-installation and see how it's going. If I get stuck in a tar pit I'll just revert to the last snapshot and try again. Regards, Guenter
