From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Mar 21 6:26:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from ns.tcworks.net (ns.tcworks.net [216.61.218.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B71437B7B3 for ; Tue, 21 Mar 2000 06:26:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ccook@tcworks.net) Received: from tcworks.net (xcess@stuck.sticky.org [216.61.218.6]) by ns.tcworks.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id IAA98934; Tue, 21 Mar 2000 08:23:17 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from ccook@tcworks.net) Message-ID: <38D78761.BD0D5DCD@tcworks.net> Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 08:29:53 -0600 From: Chris Cook X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Hough Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Moving mail References: <4.2.0.58.20000320171830.00bec720@qserve.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Robert Hough wrote: > > I'm currently moving all of our users off a very old, and very obsolete > machine. I'm looking for a good way of moving the actual mail from the > older server to the new. My first thought was to just scp it all over, the > correct the permissions, but that seems like a serious amount of work. My > second thought was using fetchmail, but that seems to be just as much of a > headache. > How about dump and restore? Works very well for me... if it is on the same LAN, just make a dumped image file of the partitions you want, ftp it to the destination machine (or put the destination HD in the box and copy it over) then restore it. Works like a champ! -- Chris o----< ccook@tcworks.net >----------------------------------------o |Chris Cook - Technician | TCWORKS.NET - http://www.tcworks.net | |The Computer Works | FreeBSD - http://www.freebsd.org | o-----------------------------------------------------------------o To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message