11 Oct
2022
11 Oct
'22
5:33 a.m.
On Mon, Oct 10, 2022, 4:35 PM , <hi@zakaria.website> wrote:
On 2022-10-10 14:57, Ian Evans wrote:
If we want to make a one-off backup prior to the migration, is shutting down postfix and running tar czf mailstorage.tgz /path/to/mail okay?
Thanks.
I would say it should be ok as long as its going to be the same setup, but if you are expecting to upgrade dovecot or any other related package, I would then recommend to perform upgrades before migrating and taking the backup, so to guarantee everything is going to be working.
Thanks for the suggestion. The host is just moving our VPS to new hardware so no update of our software is being done. (Though I need to do that myself when my schedule allows.)