Mac OS10 To Linux

[dank]

Hey guys,
I have torn apart the forums looking for help on this issue. I had an imail server die so I scrambled to install Zimbra on my production art server (Mac) and it has been running on there for the past year now. I am trying to get it off the mac and over to a linux server for it's permenant home.

I have used the ZCS-to-ZCS and the ZCS-32bit to ZCS-64bit migrations with no luck. Is it possible to move from the Mac environment to the Linux environment? It's mission critical that I make this move.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Dan

[svendsen]

Is it FOSS or Network Edition?

[dank]

Originally Posted by svendsen

Is it FOSS or Network Edition?

I'm trying to go from 6.0.5 FOSS to the same version on linux.

[svendsen]

Ok
I must admit I haven't much experience with the MAC OSX build, but I think a ZCS-to-ZCS migration should be just fine. How did you do? What errors do you get?
Alternatively, you can backup every user. Install clean ZCS, configure as you want - and import the users.
How many users are on the system?

[dank]

I have to admit it was a few months ago that I tried it, and I couldn't get the services to start properly on the linux machine.

I was thinking about doing a clean install without doing the copy and upgrade stuff then just importing the user data back into zimbra on linux. However I think with the open source edition it doesn't allow the export of user data.

[svendsen]

How to move users:
ZCS-to-ZCS Migrations » Zimbra :: Blog

But I would start trying the more automatic move first:

- shutdown Zimbra services on your OSX.
- rsync /opt/zimbra to the Linux server (remember taking care of uid/gid)
- Be sure that server name is same as on OSX
- Shutdown OSX server
- Eventually change IP address to match the OSX server
- Run Zimbra installer from the official package
- Run the fixperm script

Eventually use some of the steps from the 32->64 bit migration guide:
Network Edition: Moving from 32-bit to 64-bit Server - Zimbra :: Wiki

[dank]

Ok I think my biggest hold up is the server names matching. Does that have to happen or can I move it to the new server then run the zimbra command to change host names. Or is that moving and changing too many things at once?

[svendsen]

I would keep the hostname. But you can of course change ip address NOT to match the OSX server

[n4bbq]

Originally Posted by dank

Hey guys,
I have torn apart the forums looking for help on this issue. I had an imail server die so I scrambled to install Zimbra on my production art server (Mac) and it has been running on there for the past year now. I am trying to get it off the mac and over to a linux server for it's permenant home.

I have used the ZCS-to-ZCS and the ZCS-32bit to ZCS-64bit migrations with no luck. Is it possible to move from the Mac environment to the Linux environment? It's mission critical that I make this move.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Dan

Here's what I did.

Migration Mac OS 10.5 (ZCS 6.05 - 32bit) -> Ubuntu 8.04LTS (ZCS 6.05 - 64bit)

[dank]

The error you describe in your post sounds exactly like the problem I had. I will give this a shot this weekend and if it works I owe you lunch or something!