Best way to move Mail, Contacts, and Calendars

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Best way to move Mail, Contacts, and Calendars

I'm adding an additional server to my network to distribute some of my services and I would like to move the mail, contacts, and calendar services to this new server. It will be a ML machine running 10.8.5 with Server 2.2.1. I have these services already running on another server also running ML 10.8.5 and server 2.2.1.

What's the best way to move the data between these two machines? Any suggestion are greatly appreciated!

Mac mini Server (Mid 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.4)

Posted on Nov 17, 2013 11:05 AM

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capitanu

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Nov 18, 2013 3:42 AM in response to MplsEE08

Mail: mailboxes from /Library/Server/Mail/Data/mail can be moved using command line

- Note the correspondence between mailbox folder name(hexadecimal) and user name, can be extracted using Directory tool)

- Also if u want to have the same username - hexa key maybe you should export the OD. Personally I would just rename old folder to new hexa key)

- Do not forget to also check(mimic) the folder group/owner rights

Calendar&Contacts: Use Export and Import.

I honestly think this are the best ways (fast&clean).

Also I think they are safe, mail 100% is transferred and for Calendar&Contacts I am not aware of any data that can be lost during export-import.

(of course you can also replicate your server using DiskUtility create new image, and then deactivate unwanted services)

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