Migrating from Zimbra to Zimbra

[thob]

Is there an easy way to do that keeping everything like it is including email, contacts, aliases, rules, tags, events ...

Use case: moving from one service provider to another.

Thanks Thomas

[mmorse]

So moving hosting providers-
This a dedicated server/do you fully manage the boxes at that point?

If you can match os'es all settings down to hostname your just going to copy the /opt/zimbra (and any linked) directories
http://www.zimbra.com/forums/installation/10007-moving-one-zimbra-install-another.html

Will you be changing operating system versions as well?
Best way to move users from old Zimbra to Zimbra new machine

Originally Posted by phoenix

Backup the /opt/zimbra directory on your current server (check the gid & uid of zimbra and make a note of it) then disconnect it from your LAN. Install the same release on the new Zimbra server as you had on the old server, make sure it's all working the shutdown zimbra and copy the backup-up files from your old server to the new one, make sure the uid & gid is changed to the ones you had on the old server - run zmfixperms and also make sure the LDAP password is set (check the wiki or forum for details). Do an upgrade install on the new server and you should be good to go. I'm assuming that your new server will have the same IP & FQDN as the old server. That should be about it.

(IP will obviously change in dns/hostfile-but your server name should stay the same till your comfortable running the change name script-after a good backup, because people have mixed results)

It's being revised-but if your changing from 32-64bit: Network Edition: Moving from 32-bit to 64-bit Server - ZimbraWiki

[thob]

Thanks, this an excellent guid for providers!

[mmorse]

your welcome
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