Transitioning from a POP only email account to new IMAP enabled account – how can subsequent emails to the old POP only email be supported?

I have just started working for a growing small business. I am the first person they’ve had with any real technology background and from this point onward I will be organising and managing any IT systems for the business. One task is to improve the email services to be more professional. The organisation started as … Read more

Lift & shift migration with minimal changes [closed]

Closed. This question is off-topic. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it’s on-topic for Server Fault. Closed 5 months ago. Improve this question In Lift and Shift migration strategy there is minimal or no change. Can someone provide an example for “minimal change”. Thanks Answer A … Read more

Migration: Office 2003 > 2010 | Windows XP > 7 [closed]

Closed. This question is off-topic. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it’s on-topic for Server Fault. Closed 6 years ago. Improve this question My company will be migrating from Windows XP/MS Office 2003 to Windows 7/MS Office 2010. We will have a set of Excel and … Read more

How, with a mounted disk image, can I migrate a MySQL database to a new server?

One Ubuntu EC2 VPS is fried after an upgrade that went awry. I don’t have the server live, but I have its disk mounted on another (Ubuntu EC2) VPS. How can I migrate the contents of a database on the mounted filesystem so that I can load it on another machine? I’ve used tar and … Read more

While Changing Nameservers How To Avoid Downtime?

Referring to the Question already asked, several people have said No, as long as both sets of nameservers have the same records you’ll experience no downtime. What does same records meant here? How can I do that? I currently want to change my hosting only for my website, and want to know If I change … Read more

How can migrate ESXi to the paid version

I’m new to ESXi/vSphere and hope someone can help me. We bought vSphere and need migrate from our free ESXi installation. I have searched a lot about process but cant find about. We are still thinking about if we will keep the host profiler or just VM’s disks. I have two scenarios: One scenario needs … Read more

MySQL – complete server migration (Ubuntu) [duplicate]

This question already has answers here: Closed 9 years ago. Possible Duplicate: How to copy and move mysql database Dump all databases with SSH access I’m setting up a new dev machine, and I have the old one sitting right next to me. I’d like to do an exact copy of all MySQL structures and … Read more

Overwriting /etc/ Files between two servers

I’m the process of migrating an NIS server from one machine running Ubuntu 9.10 to a new one running Ubuntu 14.04.4 Server, and following these instructions: How do I replace an NIS master server? The plan is to run the NIS makefile on the new machine, set up one test NIS client for that machine’s … Read more