Am Mittwoch, 19. April 2006 15:27 schrieb jkp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx: > > Hello, > > > > we have a problem to restore Cyrus mailboxes from an installation of SuSE > > 9.2 > > which we want to transfer do a SuSE 10.0 installation. > > We have backuped the directories /var/lib/imap and /var/spool/imap and > > copied > > them to the new installation. > > after restarting Cyrus syslog was flooded with messages > > > > <snip> > > > > Seems you have a mismatch in version numbers between your old Berkeley DB4 > installation and your new installation. The problem is that your old .db > files (in db4.xx) is not compatible with your new Berkeley installation. > > Albeit "cumbersome" you can fix it if you still have the old server > available where you need to run cvt_cyrusdb on each file being stored in > Berkeley database format. The easiest way to find those files is probably > just to run a > > find /var/lib/imap |xargs file|grep -i berkeley > > And then manually convert those files to flat format doing: > > cvt_cyrusdb /your/berkeley_db4.db berkeley /your/berkeley_flatfile flat > > Then copy the files to your new installation and covert them back to > Berkeley with your new berkeley db4 format (cumbersome but needed step) > > > Good luck, > Best regards, > Jesper K. Pedersen Doesn´t sound very good. The old server does not exist anymore. On the other side I have a server that was upgraded and seems to use the old file format. How can I find out what version of Berkeley DB this cyrus is using? Or are there any tools to do this without cyrus? Harry Harry ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
