this question actually covers 3 threads in the forums, but i think it wise to only post it once
we are moving from the commercial virtualmin/webmin/usermin to the gpl versions. currently the gpl versions of each are higher than the commercial ones we are running.
rather than manually configuring everything in gpl, will the commercial configs work? could i tar up the /etc/webmin and any other directories and simply install them in the gpl plus manually moving unique package configs and the website directories themselves? this would save a considerable amount of time compared to manually configuring the webmin/virtualmin system and then creating several hundred websites and then moving data over to the new ones.
rather than manually configuring everything in gpl, will the commercial configs work?
Theoretically, yes. Practically, I don’t know. It’s pretty rare for folks to go back to GPL from Professional (but we don’t mind, if Professional doesn’t provide any additional capabilities you need). But we’ll try to fix any bugs that show up in migrating in either direction.
Now that GPL has the same mail processing features, the biggest hurdle is removed (I’m assuming you’ve used the automated install script for GPL, to setup the mail processing stuff in the same way…if not, you’ll have to manually setup mail and deal with the differences).
could i tar up the /etc/webmin and any other directories and simply install them in the gpl plus manually moving unique package configs and the website directories themselves?
Highly suspect process. I wouldn’t do it this way, as it’s very likely to be prone to errors.
Why not simply use the Virtualmin backup and restore features?
rather than manually configuring everything in gpl, will the commercial configs work?
Theoretically, yes. Practically, I don’t know. It’s pretty rare for folks to go back to GPL from Professional (but we don’t mind, if Professional doesn’t provide any additional capabilities you need). But we’ll try to fix any bugs that show up in migrating in either direction.
Now that GPL has the same mail processing features, the biggest hurdle is removed (I’m assuming you’ve used the automated install script for GPL, to setup the mail processing stuff in the same way…if not, you’ll have to manually setup mail and deal with the differences).
we dont use mail or dns. only web. qmail is built and configured as outgoing only and can only fwd mail to our primary mail server which then decides what to do with the mail. the only mail allowed is from websites (forms etc).
could i tar up the /etc/webmin and any other directories and simply install them in the gpl plus manually moving unique package configs and the website directories themselves?
Highly suspect process. I wouldn’t do it this way, as it’s very likely to be prone to errors.
for the pkg configs or for the webmin directories? the pkg configs such as apache will only have virtual sites block copied rather than use the entire conf file. otherwise there are only a few that can just be compared and changed as needed.
Why not simply use the Virtualmin backup and restore features?
never thought of that. honestly have never had to explore them since we have our own complete system backup in operation.
