Moving

[grisu]

(07-01-2009 03:06 PM)MasterTH Wrote:  in your case i would do it this way:

1. Install the new server and make him work
2. Transfer one Domain which has now priority
3. Change the DNS-Settings for that domain
4. Check if everything is working.
5. Create the other domains
6. Transfer everything thats on that domains (mail-addresses ...)
7. Change the DNS-Settings for each domain
8. Copy the Mail-Files into the right folder on the new Server.
9. Check if everything is running well, if not turn back to the old server

That's exactly what I've done with my system (a Insel-Lösung based System ^^) - it IS some work to do, but after the first domain, it works easyly and using 'rsync' is not a problem to repeat those steps for the next domains.

Btw a little hint to #3 (change DNS servers)... You MAY want to change the first line of your Zone-files of all the other domains in advance. This reduces the TTL (time to live) to a value like 3600 (means 1h).
If you migrate the stuff and change THEN the DNS finally it will take the changes much faster because many default settings are set to 84000 or something (which means a whole day). This MAY work and it DOES work mostly... but it's not a warranty that coresponding DNS taking the changes faster...