David S. Madole wrote: > My limited experience is that you can simply copy both /var/spool/imap > and /var/lib/imap to the new machine if you are trying to migrate > everything. > > One way to do this to minimize downtime if you have a lot of data is to > make a live copy while the old server is still running in advance of the > switchover. Then take Cyrus down on the old server and rsync the > directories on the new server to the old one. Since most of the data > will already be there unchanged, rsync will only have to move the > difference. Depending on your network and amount of data, this can be > much faster. Thanks for the rsync advice, I'll go for that. By the other hand, I'd prefer not to copy the data over /var/lib/imap, since the BDB4 versions differ. Instead, is there any way to reconstruct the databases under /var/lib/imap just from the content that it may find under /var/spool/imap? (where the mailboxes are stored and are gonna be rsync'ed). Thanks, Fabio ---- 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
