>>>>> "Alain Spineux" <aspineux@xxxxxxxxx>: > On Nov 27, 2007 6:59 PM, Steinar Bang <sb@xxxxxx> wrote: >> When I try to run the following command line from >> /usr/share/doc/cyrus-common-2.2/README.Debian.database.gz >> >> /usr/sbin/cvt_cyrusdb /var/lib/cyrus/deliver.db db3 /var/lib/cyrus/temp.db flat >> >> I get the following error message: >> >> fatal error: unknown old backend >> >> What's unknown here? The "db3" argument? Or the format of the >> deliver.db file? > # /usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/cvt_cyrusdb > Usage: /usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/cvt_cyrusdb [-C altconfig] <old db> <old > db backend> <new db> <new db backend> > Usable Backends: berkeley, berkeley-nosync, flat, skiplist, quotalegacy > maybe berkeley instead of db3 :-) That fails with a different error message: $ /usr/sbin/cvt_cyrusdb /var/lib/cyrus/deliver.db berkeley /var/lib/cyrus/temp.db flat Converting from /var/lib/cyrus/deliver.db (berkeley) to /var/lib/cyrus/temp.db (flat) fatal error: can't open old database Is there any way of finding out what the format of the old database is? > Also I advise you use your old tools to convert your db to portable > format. The 2.1 tools, you mean? Too late. They went out when I apt-get installed 2.2. ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
