[Powermail-users] Mail data migration.

[bert hubert]

On Sun, May 25, 2003 at 02:29:21AM -0400, lists1 at dnsred.tiggee.com wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> What would be the best way to migrate data from one powermail box to a 
> new box?  I want to move the pop box to a new location but I don't want a 
> long downtime.  Can I set up a new box and just migrate over all of the 
> old data to the new box?

Indeed - just setup the second box, and run a pplistener on it too. Start
copying everything to the second box, preferrably using rsync. Do that a few
times, then make the original box readonly (pptool block), and run a final
rsync and you are done. 

Regards,

bert

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