monit-sympa/sympa/doc/migration.md

Migration

From:       debian9,  sympa 6.2.16
To:         debian12, sympa 6.2.70
Future:     debian13, sympa 6.2.76

Documentation

• https://www.sympa.community/manual/upgrade/in-place.html
• https://www.sympa.community/manual/upgrade/move.html

export/import

• on old machine

• wget https://git.artcode.re/cemea/monit-sympa/raw/branch/main/sympa/resources/tools/sympa_export.bash
• chmod +x sympa_export.bash
• ./sympa_export.bash

export (deprecated)

1. temp dir

• sympa_domain=$(grep '^domain' /etc/sympa/sympa/sympa.conf | cut -f2)
• temp_dir="$sympa_domain-$(date '+%F')"
• mkdir $temp_dir && cd $temp_dir || echo 'already exist!' && false

2. database backup

   • db_name=sympa
   • db_user=sympa
   • db_passwd=$(grep '^db_passwd' /etc/sympa/sympa/sympa.conf | cut -f2)
   • PGPASSWORD=$db_passwd pg_dump -h localhost -U "$db_user" "$db_name" | gzip > "$db_name.psql.gz"

3. tar

   1. /etc/sympa
      • cp /etc/sympa/sympa/sympa.conf .
   2. /var/lib/sympa
      • tar -czvf lib-sympa.tgz /var/lib/sympa
   3. /var/spool/sympa
      • tar -czvf spool-sympa.tgz /var/spool/sympa

import (deprecated)

1. database restore
2. tar

• /etc/sympa/sympa/sympa.conf

3. sympa.pl --upgrade

from miaou-recipe (example sympa3.incus)

• CONTAINER=sympa3
• miaou-create "$CONTAINER"
• miaou/miaou-install-sympa "$CONTAINER"

miaou-install-from-import-sympa

• CONTAINER=sympa3
• miaou/miaou-install-from-import-sympa $CONTAINER ~/Downloads/listes.artcode.re-2025-11-14.sympa