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Migrating to a new machine
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Migrating the relay to a new server
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This migration tutorial provides a step-wise approach
to safely migrate a chatmail relay from one remote machine to another.
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If you have lowered the Time-to-Live for DNS records in step 1,
better use a higher value again (between 14400 and 86400 seconds) once you are sure everything works.
Migrating a local chatmail/relay repository to the server
=========================================================
To move the directory with your local chatmail/relay repository and ``chatmail.ini`` file,
clone the `relay repository <https://github.com/chatmail/relay/>` to the server where the relay is running,
and copy the ``chatmail.ini`` file from your local chatmail/relay repository there.
If you made local changes to the repository,
you can store them in a file with ``git diff origin/main > local-changes.patch``,
copy the file to the repository on the server,
and run ``git apply local-changes.patch``.
Then you can proceed with the `installation steps <setup>`.