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Some confusion about DNS also backup MX records

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I would like to do the incremental migration, but am not sure about the part in the instructions about DNS as this part of the instructions seems a bit incomplete ... i have set the ttl to 300 (NOTE that most servers on the web will probably ignore this setting and cache for at least 1h anyhow ) for all my domains but not sure what to set for MX records in my DNS server

FYI source server will be mx1.myserver.ca and destination server will be mx2.myserver.ca

i now have the following records on the mail server for source and destination machines

mx1.myserver.ca. IN A x.x.x.131
mx2.myserver.ca. IN A x.x.x.132

and these on each of the domains that need to be transfered

somedomain.com. IN MX 22 mx1.myserver.ca.
somedomain.com. IN MX 100 mx2.myserver.ca

however there is no mention in any doc that i can find about what/how to setup DNS records or if a backup MX isa plausible way to do migration without down time? as usual i am probably missing something obvious here and may not need or want backup MX records

please advise! and thank you in advance

 
Posted : 07/18/2014 22:45