Migrate Sites and Emails from One Cluster to Another

gustavots

Hi everyone, I hope you're doing well. I'm looking for some advice on cluster migration and would appreciate any insights you can share.

I started setting up my first cluster without fully understanding what I was doing, and now I’d like to start over properly. I only have a few sites and will likely keep it that way in the coming months, so I’d prefer to keep everything on a single server to minimize costs. My question is: Would it be possible to start a new cluster and transfer sites or emails from one cluster to another without major difficulties?

Thanks in advance for your help! Any guidance or personal experiences would be greatly appreciated.

cPFence

gustavots

For migrating from one cluster to another, just back up your files and databases and move them to the new cluster, there’s no built-in solution for this yet, but it’s on the roadmap.

For emails, you can use this tool: https://imapsync.tropicalserver.com/. Don't forget to reset your passwords afterward.

Kosta

cPFence thank you! do you know for couple simple commands that I can input in terminal over ssh to transfer emails without reaching/exposing my emails to other servers like tropical servers…
Or maybe download on my desktop that emails with thunderbird client maybe and then from my desktop upload them to new mail server?

xyzulu

Kosta you can run your own local instance of imapsync (we do). See the source: https://imapsync.lamiral.info/

Or a single docker based command:

docker run --rm gilleslamiral/imapsync imapsync --host1 test1.lamiral.info --user1 test1 --password1 'secret1' --host2 test2.lamiral.info --user2 test2 --password2 'secret2'

Kosta

xyzulu thank you very much.