Comments on: Moving ZCS to Another Server

By: Elliot Wilen

Elliot Wilen — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 23:38:44 +0000

Trying to do this using Tiger and 5.0.10 NE, I found these instructions didn’t quite work for me. Ultimately I found that I needed to do part 4 step 5 by running ./install-mac.sh -d and pointing it to the .dmg file, as root, from /opt/zimbra/libexec/installer.

By: gnyce

gnyce — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 13:27:22 +0000

Just used this, even tho’ it was a NE install. There were just a few issues I can into, some probably b/c of my own fault. That, plus some tips, below:
- for some reason when (after copying) running the install.sh, it was copying an /opt/zimbra/.saveconfig/config.save that did not have my settings in it (most values were blank). The result is that ldap would not be able to start (javax.naming.CommunicationException problem). So before accepting the license, I would re-copy my proper config.save in… that worked fine.
- permissions problem on /opt/zimbra/redolog/ (probably b/c I was messing with the uid/gid numbers, and zmfixperms didn’t catch it the first time)

- Tip… watch in the /tmp directory, there is an install.log.xxxxx (numbers) and a zimbra-install.???? (something) files that are written to, it helped me to figure out the ldap problem
- B/c of permissions problem, mailbox could not start… /opt/zimbra/log/mailboxd.log flat out told me it could not open the redo.log, so that was easy

I have one remaining issue with regard to the cert and the .ssh directory, will fix later today (error thrown when I go into admin UI, certificates…)

By: Eugene

Eugene — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 11:18:34 +0000

Good day,

I am moving from fedora7 to RHEL5.2 and I don’t have physical access to the servers(only remote)

Is there a way to do this move to a different IP?

Thnx

By: qhartman

qhartman — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:01:53 +0000

@ Bill Weaver:

This method will not work to go from 32-bit to 64. The internal format of the LDAP data files are different between the two architectures, so even though the binaries get re-installed in the second installation step, your LDAP files would be broken. This document http://wiki.zimbra.com/index.php?title=Network_Edition:_Moving_from_32-bit_to_64-bit_Server outlines a method to move from 32 to 64-bit that makes sense, though I’ve not tried it myself. I plan to do that shortly though.

By: Mani

Mani — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 07:17:57 +0000

Did see this URL

http://wiki.zimbra.com/index.php?title=Network_Edition:_Moving_from_32-bit_to_64-bit_Server

after I posted, will this work for the community edition also?

By: Mani

Mani — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 07:13:08 +0000

I also have same requirement as Bill Weaver, I am moving from Centos 32 bit to 64bit Ubuntu8.04, I have the 64bit working fine in Ubuntu, looking for the steps to migrate.

By: Bill Weaver

Bill Weaver — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 14:33:12 +0000

Will this method work to upgrade from a 32 bit OS to a 64 bit OS? I’ve created a new server to replace the old one and would like to install RHEL 64 bit - current server is running 32 bit.

By: Confluence: System Administration

Confluence: System Administration — Wed, 28 May 2008 02:14:17 +0000

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Zimbra issues Folders in webclient showing deleted messages in new message count…

By: John Holder

John Holder — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 16:31:00 +0000

There seems to be something wrong with your command line interpreter.

Try running it like this:
/opt/zimbra/libexec/zmfixperms

By: parixit

parixit — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 16:28:27 +0000

Hello I seem to be getting the following errors when i run the zmfixperms command

./zmfixperms
: command not found/get_plat_tag.sh: line 26:
: command not found/get_plat_tag.sh: line 27:
/opt/zimbra/libexec/get_plat_tag.sh: line 33: syntax error near unexpected token `else’
‘opt/zimbra/libexec/get_plat_tag.sh: line 33: ` else