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From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To: Sasa Stupar <sasa@stupar.homelinux.net>
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Subject: Re: Migration from FC4 to FreeBSD
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On 2005-09-23 20:30, Sasa Stupar <sasa@stupar.homelinux.net> wrote:
> Currently I have a running mail/web server under FC4. I have
> sendmail+cyrus2 configured. The question is: can I migrate easily to
> FreeBSD with only a backup of all mailboxes  under /var/imap and
> /var/spool/imap and also the backup of /etc/shadow for all users?

I'm not sure it's very easy to move the encrypted shadow passwords, but
the rest should be *very* easy, once you get the hang of the way FreeBSD
works.

Make sure you install a test machine with FreeBSD and get acquainted
with the installation of the system itself, extra ports/packages and
everything you may find useful _before_ the actual switch though :)