Help Moving Mail Store

Question

We are attempting to migrate the mail stores from Sun Messaging Server 5.2 on Windows to iMS 5.2 on Solaris. We used imsbackup to archive a test account. When we tried to restore the mail (using imsrestore) on the destination server, it fails (the user's mailbox is empty). We used "imsrestore -t" to validate the archive prior to the attempt at restoration.
We suspect that this is because the mail stores are named differently. The source mail store is named "MYMAIL" and the target is named "Portal1B". Is this likely to be the cause? If so, is there an easy way to correct this?
Please note that the iMS services are a component of Luminis portal so we can't upgrade even if there are tools available in a newer version that makes this easier.
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

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MoveUser is designed to move your users, one at a
time, over the network. It may be faster than
backup, but not guranteed. If used with correct ldap
url in the command, it will even change the ldap
entry for your users, for mail host.
I've migrated terabytes of mail stores with MoveUser,
usually a few thousand users at a time.We've been studying the moveuser command in the Messaging Server Reference Manual and have not been able to determine the correct arguments to pass. Can you please give us an example of the syntax based on our hypothetical setup?
Src Email server: mymail.school.edu
Src Email LDAP server: my.school.edu
Src Email LDAP admin: cn=Directory Manager
Src Email LDAP user path: ou=people, o=my.school.edu, o=cp
Dst Emai server: portal1b.school.edu
Dst Email LDAP server: portal1a.school.edu
Dst Email LDAP admin: cn=Directory Manager
Dst Email LDAP user path: ou=people, o=my.school.edu, o=cp
Thank you for all your assistance!