> -----Original Message----- > From: Bron Gondwana [mailto:brong@xxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 7:02 PM > To: Gary W. Smith > Cc: info-cyrus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: Multi-server consolidation > > On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 03:16:55PM -0800, Gary W. Smith wrote: > > I have a couple different servers that have several mailboxes on them > > and I would like to migrate them to a single new server. The new > server > > will handle all of these mailboxes just fine. All of the mailboxes > are > > unique across all of the servers. > > > > I have copied the /var/[spool/lib]/imap to the new server from one > box > > and everything seems to be working fine there. Now it's the issue of > > getting the rest of the mailboxes over to the new machine. There are > 4 > > machines in total with about 2000 email accounts. > > > > I'd prefer not to use any type of imap copy as we want to preserve > the > > flags and we don't have the luxury of changing the user passwords. > > > > Any suggestions? > > Replication engine :) > > Seriously, that's how we do it. Run up a sync_server on the new > machine > and then sync_client -U each user from the old machine. > > Obviously, you'll want to suspend delivery and stop IMAP clients for > the > duration. We do this with some dastardly hacks in the authentication > daemon, a database field that our internal tools check before trying > to deliver, and a "grep $UserName $confdir/proc/* | xargs kill" moral > equivalent. You can probably manage with just removing the imapd and > lmtp lines from your cyrus.conf and doing it outside regular hours > though. > > Bron. I'll look into that. It sounds like what we want to do. Stopping MTA's aren't a problem since it all goes through a central relay at this point in time (plus we have a 4 hour window every week for taking systems down if necessary). Gary ---- 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
