I allowed a week for the new slave server to sync all email and settings. I also ran the following commands on the master:

issue "tellmail resync_config" on master (if using g_mirror_config)- we are, so yes.

issue "tellmail surgehost_update" on master

issue "tellmail resync_nwauth"' on master (if using nwauth) – we are, so yes.

issue "tellmail resync_fast" on master

issue "tellmail resync_mkdir" on master

I switched the server roles this morning and found I could not login to the new server when set as the master. Additionally I received a bounce back message when trying to send to my account saying the account did not exist.

I quickly switched the servers back and all is good at the moment – I’m able to log in and receive email.

I’m guessing the user database did not copy over to the new server?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Chris

We run 2 mirrored Surgemail servers and have come to the point where we are ready to update to a new primary server.

 

We’re currently setting up the new server as the slave. I just wanted to check that we are following all the steps to copy all the data from our existing server.

Setup the new system as a slave to the master server in the config on the new system, then:

 

issue "tellmail resync_config" on master (if using g_mirror_config)- we are, so yes.

issue "tellmail surgehost_update" on master

issue "tellmail resync_nwauth"' on master (if using nwauth) – we are, so yes.

issue "tellmail resync_fast" on master

issue "tellmail resync_mkdir" on master

That looks good.

Are there any other steps or files that need to be copied? 

I noticed there are some large folders /usr/local/surgemail/

/usr/local/surgemail/surgeweb

And

/usr/local/surgemail/usr

Do these folders need to be copied over?

No they shouldn't be needed, surgeweb folders are just caches so not needed.

I don't know what /usr/local/surgemail/usr is, check surgemail.ini for references to it, it's not standard so I"m not sure what it includes..

The other things you might want to copy manually
    1) mailing list folders (surgemail/dlist...)
    2) ssl certificates (surgemail/ssl...)
    3) any archives (legal archive settings/path)...
   

ChrisP.

 

Thanks,

Chris