On 11/30/2011 06:18 AM, ken wrote:
On 11/30/2011 06:36 AM Timothy Murphy wrote:
I want to move my home server over to a new machine, both running CentOS. (The present server is running CentOS-5.7, the new one 6.0.) I'm thinking of moving things over one at a time, starting with email. I'm running IMAP on the server, with my email in ~/Maildir/ . I'm wondering what exactly I need to copy to the new machine?
Any help or suggestions gratefully received.
If it were me, I'd copy the entire old machine (running 5.7) over to the new machine so that after the copy it was also running 5.7, then upgrade the new machine to 6.0. ...unless you like making things more complicated than they need to be.
An upgrade on the same machine from 5.7 to 6.x is not supported and would always leave behind a bunch of old libraries, etc.
The way he is doing it is the correct way (at least as recommended by RH for RHEL and by us for CentOS.
http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Installati...