From: "as" 
Subject: Re: Help with Migrate
Date: 1998/08/22
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I wouldn't chance the bindrest, as that util may have been one of the
upgrades. As you will have the original
server, however you are not risking anything other than lost time. You have
correctly chosen an acrossthe
wire install.


TR wrote in message ...
>I am about to migrate from a 25 user 3.12 server to a new 100 user 3.12
>machine.  I plan to use the Migrate utility in an accross the wire upgrade,
>and have a few questions:
>
>1 - are there any issues in performing the upgrade?  The 100 user is a
>later patch rev, and I worry about overwriting newer files in System and
>Public with the older files from the source server.
>
>2 - When performing the migration, I have a choice to set passwords to
>blanks or random passwords, but I wondered if I did a bindfix on the old
>server, performed the migrate, then did a bindrest on the new server ( with
>the .old files from the 25 user server ), would that restore the passwords,
>or just screw things up?
>
>Thanks