Migration from One Zimbra box to another

[kennyfordham]

For Hardware reasons I need to migrate our Zimbra server.
I would like to do a clean install of 3.1.2 on the new box then migrate the domains, account\passwords, messages, contacts, so on.

Is there a Doc or procedure for this?

Thanks

Kenny

[JoshuaPrismon]

For Hardware reasons I need to migrate our Zimbra server.
I would like to do a clean install of 3.1.2 on the new box then migrate the domains, account\passwords, messages, contacts, so on.

Is there a Doc or procedure for this?

Thanks

Kenny

After much pain and suffer compounded by a admin accidently deleting the right directory, but on the wrong server I did manage to actually move the server over. Here is the rough procedure that I used, but bear in mind, there are holes, and you better have a good unix guy around to fix them ;-)

Note that you really should have the machines being named the same. Zimbra gets tempremental if you suddenly change the machine names.

- Upgrade your existing server to 3.1.2.
- Install the new server.
- Copy all of the data directories (store, db, openldap-data) to the new server.
- Copy the local settings xml file (in conf) over to the new server.
- Restart it and hope everything works.

Note, that this really isn't for the faint of heart, and I am sure several zimbra folks are loosing their hair color right now reading this post.