8.0 Performing an In-Place Database Migration

  1. Install DBCopy on the Linux server where you want to mount the domain or post office.

    For instructions, see the following section in the GroupWise Administration Guide for your version of GroupWise:

  2. (Conditional) For an NSS volume on an OES Linux server, set the name space on the volume to Unix.

    The default OES Linux name space setting is Long, which is case insensitive. The Unix name space setting is case sensitive, which allows all file names and folder names in the domain or post office folder structure to be converted to lower case. For instructions, see Configuring the Name Space for an NSS Volume in the NSS File System Administration Guide for Linux for your version of OES Linux.

  3. Mount the domain or post office folder to the Linux server.

  4. Change to the following folder:

    /opt/novell/groupwise/agents/bin

  5. Use the following command to convert the domain or post office folder structure to lowercase:

    ./dbcopy -l domain_or_post_office_folder

  6. Install and start the GroupWise Linux agents on the Linux server where the domain or post office is mounted, as described in the following section of the GroupWise Installation Guide for your version of GroupWise: