Setting up test server

[Res]

On Tue, 20 Feb 2007, dnsadmin 1bigthink.com wrote:

> At 05:39 PM 2/20/2007, you wrote:
>
>> Lance Haig wrote:
>>> Drew,
>>> 
>>> is there no way to do this for a whole domain?
>>> 
>>> Lance
>> Lance,
>> 
>> Do you mean that you want to move everyone's inboxes over from server a to 
>> server b?
>> 
>> If so, we've found the scp tool invaluable. Permissions can be tricky 
>> though if the userids/groupids are different on the new server, so watch 
>> for that.
>> 
>> Let me know if you have any questions.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Chris
>
> If same users and groups already exist on the target server, rsync (over SSH 
> for security) will take care of it perfectly. Mind you, I'm a novice when it 
> comes to postfix! But rsync will take goos care or uid/gid/permissions and 
> recursively.


nothing beats tar

>
> Cheers! 
>

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Cheers
Res

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