Am Mittwoch, 19. April 2006 18:27 schrieb Andrew Morgan: > On Wed, 19 Apr 2006, Dr. Harry Knitter wrote: > > > 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? > > You could also try deleting the files in the configdirectory/db/ directory > (make a copy to be safe). Those are the transaction logs, etc, for > BerkeleyDB and skiplist. They should be safe to delete because the actual > information is in the mailboxes.db file. > > Andy Could you please give me a hint what you mean with configdirectory? In my case (SuSE 10.0 as well as 9.2) I found a subdirectory db in /var/lib/imap the directory where the database seems to be located. There is a directory deliverdb with a subdirectory db in the same place. As having copied the whole directory /var/lib/imap including subdirectories from the old installation to the new one I cant´t imagine that these old directories are the cause of a changed Berkeley DB version. Regards 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
