Re: Moving files

[Tom Kreimer <tkreimer@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

The "Move" process uses replication via adminP, so you first have to have 
a connection document between the two servers set up to replicate 
everything (admin4.nsf and your selected mail files anyway, so that 
implies "everything"). This process takes time, as you have to wait for 
replication of admin4.nsf to take place and then Domino tries a "cluster" 
replica creation and fails before it creates a regular replica stub and 
then waits for the next round of scheduled replication to actually 
replicate the data. 

You can also go to the "People" view and use "Move to another server" 
which is pretty much the same as "Move" but also updates the location of 
the mail file and eventually removes the old replica (at least I think so, 
it has been years since I've used it). I think it requires "approval" in 
the adminP database, maybe.

You can do all that yourself --  just manually replicate and update the 
person document with the new mail server. Make sure the person doc gets 
replicated to all servers (names.nsf) then remove the old DB. There might 
be more to your "big picture" that I've missed, but I hope this helps.

As for making the mail files accessible to the Internet, lots of people 
have lots of opinions on doing that, but that is not what you asked for. 
:-)
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Tom Kreimer
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We are trying to take some users off our iSeries server and build a 
Windows server to put them on.  I don't think we want to replicate the 
users, because we want to put select users on the new Windows server to 
replicate to a server on the internet to be able to get our email from 
outside.  We tried using the "Move"  to get users to the new server, but 
that does not seem to do anything.  If you have any suggestions as to the 
best way to do what we are trying do, we would appreciate them.  Thanks.