Gabor Gombas schreef: > On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 10:51:21AM +0200, Paul van der Vlis wrote: > >> make backups: >> cp -a /var/lib/cyrus /var/lib/cyrus-backup >> cp -a /var/spool/sieve /var/spool/sieve-backup >> cp -a /usr/lib/cyrus/ /usr/lib/cyrus-backup >> cp -a /var/spool/cyrus /var/spool/cyrus-backup >> The last one takes long... > > Don't you have regular backups? If you don't, you should better start > doing them... I do have regular backups, but if I do something like this I like a way back to the old situation, without the loss of the mail since the last backup. > Anyway, you can use rsync to make an initial copy while > the old service is still running and a much quicker update when the old > service is stopped. Correct, that's better. >> remove packages: >> apt-get remove cyrus21-common cyrus21-admin cyrus21-clients >> libcyrus-imap-perl21 >> dpkg --get-selections | grep cyrus >> >> backup config-files: >> mv /etc/imapd.conf /etc/imapd.conf.backup >> mv /etc/cyrus.conf /etc/cyrus.conf.backup > > I'd do that _before_ removing the packages... Without --purge, the configfiles are not removed. But maybe your way is better. >> install packages: >> apt-get install cyrus-imapd-2.2 cyrus-admin-2.2 cyrus-clients-2.2 >> libcyrus-imap-perl22 db4.2-util cyrus-pop3d-2.2 >> >> choose to overwrite cyrus.conf and imapd.conf (I wonder why this files >> are still there). > > Because you've used "apt-get remove" instead of "apt-get purge". I did also a "mv /etc/imapd.conf /etc/imapd.conf.backup" etc. > This was my recipe for a 2.1 -> 2.3 (from experimental) migration: > > cd /var/lib/cyrus/db > db3_recover > cd /var/lib/cyrus > db4.X_upgrade deliver.db > rm tls*db > cd db > db4.X_checkpoint -1 > > (replace 'X' with the correct BDB version) Thanks for the information! With regards, Paul van der Vlis. -- http://www.vandervlis.nl/ ---- 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
