For point 2. I think there are the services in the AdminGUI
For point 3. is there a cli and usage for export and import?
Clean install of latest version
All commands for the Service namens acc. Suse standard?
grommunio-2022121-ova:~ # systemctl list-units --type=service --output json-pretty |jq -s -r '.[][]|select(.unit | test("^grom*|redis@|postfix|nginx|php"))|.unit'
grommunio-admin-api.service
grommunio-antispam.service
grommunio-archive-smtp.service
grommunio-archive.service
grommunio-cui@tty1.service
gromox-delivery-queue.service
gromox-delivery.service
gromox-event.service
gromox-http.service
gromox-imap.service
gromox-midb.service
gromox-pop3.service
gromox-timer.service
gromox-zcore.service
nginx.service
php-fpm.service
postfix.service
redis@grommunio.service- Edited
To backup all databases I understood is
mysqldump --all-databases > /root/old/bck/dump_grommunio.sql
and Restore it seems to be (?)
mysqlimport --all-databases < /root/new/bck/dump_grommunio.sql
Whats about if the table structure changes from Release to Release, e.g. name is changed or some new tables are added?
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I am sorry, this is just confusing. With the MariaDB I just made a total backup with mysqldump --all-databases > /root/old/bck/dump_grommunio.sql as sequence @WalterH told in another thread, only the restore is unclear to me.
With the listing of the services I can now make up a script in which first all are stopped and then started systemctl stop xxx-yyy.service and later systemctl start xxx-yyy.service (or if necessary with restart).
If there is a new release and I can set up a new VM with the ISO, which works and is clean, can't I simply transfer all user data from one installation to the other with commands like gromox-pff2mt and gromox-mt2exm or a combination of them?
The way 1-5 shown above is a ray of hope that even admins with less knowledge can do without fear of losing any data. The path is manageable and seems safe. But clear should be this one. Frankly, if the next release is available and there is no clear and safe procedure, the base is laid for a bunch of time to be spent here in the forum to clarify individual cases.
Andy Yes and no. gromox-pff2mt in combination with gromox-mt2exm is just to import an Outlook PST or OST file. Without configuration Grommunio itself and setup the user etc. in the admin-gui an import of the PST makes no sense.
By the way: I didn't stop any service when I made the update from 15.3 to 15.4. The update went straight forward w/o great hassle, just MariaDB needed more time for the upgrade on the restart so I ran into a timeout. This was easy to fix at the end.
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What is your way to Upgrade from Release to Release?
I know that the two commands gromox-pff2mt and gromox-mt2exm are more related to others as for a transfer between two installations. My question was more about to have a command for such transfers.
I used the procedure which crbp published here:
https://community.grommunio.com/d/548-upgrade-appliance-to-opensuse-154/60
But I think the procedure from WalterH, which wasn't published at that time, might be more safe as you make several backups before the upgrade. The rest is more or less similar.
https://community.grommunio.com/d/792-update-form-open-suse-153-to-154
By the way: A restore of the Mariadb database is not required when you perform the upgrade. The dump is only a backup.
tmcelhaney Sure, if you carry over all the important files, e.g. /var/lib/grom, /var/lib/mysql, /etc/grom, and maybe other things you need from /etc.
10 days later
@WalterH I am newer to Linux and still learning what command would I use to restore the database to the new updated system?
Also I have both installation on Hyper-V and have been moving the files around via sftp which is fine for the database and smaller files. But the /var/lib/grom is over 30GB because of all the mail and will take an eternity to move via sftp
Can you recommend a program that I could backup the files from the hyper -v grommunio to my windows server and restore on the new installation?
Thanks,
Trent
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tar is a good choice. Like:
tar -czvf /backup/grommunio.tgz /var/lib/gromox/
than move the /backup/grommunio.tgz to the destination server or to the windows server.
An other option is rsync to copy the files directly to the destination server. Like:
rsync -aH -essh --delete --numeric-ids -P --stats --inplace /var/lib/gromox/ root@<DEST_SERVER>:/var/lib/gromox/