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Looking to migrate spam quarantine to another (new) server (RedHat Linux)

bbarrows

We are running PureMessage 5.5.0 - customer added new DataCenter and we are migrating to it.

We are hoping that there is a way to migrate the end-user quarantine to the new servers where a fresh PMX install sits anxiously ~ this way we won't have a 1 week (our current quarantine retention) period where the end users have spam quarantines in 2 different places (old and new PMX instances).

Make sense? Is this possible to get around/resolve?

Thanks in advance,

Ben

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    Hello Ben,

    PMX has an option to "consolidate" messages from a group of edge servers to one central server.  This option is helpful for those who run their edge servers in a DMZ, and do not wish to have any information in that zone.  There are two utilities that are used pmx-store-export and pmx-store-import.

    The procedure is better outlined here:

    http://pmdocs.sophos.com/pmdocs/Latest/en/pmdocs/concepts/AdmQuarantine-Quarantine-ConsolidateMultiServers.html

    pmx-qindex; PMX_MESSAGE_STORE=dir:/opt/pmx/var/qdir pmx-store-export --importer\
       'ssh pmx@ConsolidatedQuarantineServer PMX_MESSAGE_STORE=dir:/opt/pmx/var/qdir\
       /opt/pmx/bin/pmx-store-import -';rm -f /opt/pmx/var/qdir/cur/index_log

    If you run the above command on your old server, and fill in the appropriate details for your new server, it  will export the quarantine via ssh. This could take a long period of time depending on the size of the quarantine.

    Please review the instructions and let me know if you have any questions.  Please note, this is ONLY the quarantined messages.

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