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The site numbers will be a small issue, just requiring some work.
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<br />The CMU system will automatically renumber sites as they are imported. That causes some problems with things like CMS systems (Joomla, Wordpress, etc...). Those CMS systems usually require a hard link to their root directory. So while they might have been /home/.sites/79/site9 on the old box, the will be something else on the new. Just be ready to go into each site with a CMS, figure out what the new full path is, and put in the config file.
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<br />But you'll also run into another problem that will be more difficult to resolve!
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<br />In our case, we have been consolidating servers for years. At one time, we had around 12 BlueOnyx servers. Mostly because we were using the Nuonce SPAM filtering software, and it gobbled up so much CPU/memory resources - that we couldn't put as many sites/users on each server. So more servers.
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<br />But as we moved away from that - we wanted to consolidate. That's when we started running into username problems. Since it was before the "site prefix" had been implemented - we started running into conflicts in usernames. Two or three different sites would all have a username "john", or "admin". Obviously, both sites couldn't be imported to the same server without renaming one of those site's user. And luckily, CMU gives you the ability to do it automatically during the import.
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<br />But now, you're calling customers and telling them that their username "admin" they've used for years has changed to "admin1" or "admin2". Their e-mail has changed with the username change, so you've got to in and put the old username as a alias for that user. And sometimes, software they had running on the site has to be changed to new user ownership. All in all - a real PIA!
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<br />I'm currently trying to consolidate the last five servers we have into one 5209R. But that username conflict is a real problem, and the current holding point. Luckily, a lot of customers these days are forking out the $$ to do hosted exchange for e-mail - and that eliminates the problem with usernames.
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<br />But the best advise I can give any BlueOnyx administrator -- ALWAYS use the site prefix when setting up a new customer/site. It may be a little challenging, explaining that prefix need to customers. But it will save you a world of pain later on!
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<br />Chuck
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From: "Jim Scott" <jscott@infoconex.com>
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To: "BlueOnyx General Mailing List" <blueonyx@mail.blueonyx.it>
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Sent: Wed, 24 Feb 2016 18:15:03 -0800
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Subject: [BlueOnyx:19185] Consolidating servers - Anything I need to be aware
when doing CMU Export/Import?
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<br />> We have been running a few different machines that we are going to
consolidate to one machine. I have used CMU to export/import and entire server
before and it works well. However I am going to need to import 2 different
machines to one
machine.
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<br />> Do I need to do anything special to prevent overlaps for example in the
site numbers?
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<br />> For example both machines will likely have site1/site2/site3
etc...
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Jim
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