> On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 09:38 +0200, Simon Matter wrote: >> > Planning on upgrading my server from... >> > >> > db4-4.2.52-7.3.el4 >> > cyrus-imapd-2.2.12-9.RHEL4 >> > >> > to >> > >> > db4-4.3.29-9.fc6 >> > cyrus-imapd-2.3.14-1 >> >> Looks like you are going from RHEL4 to RHEL5? >> >> > >> > obviously, I can move the mail files but I'm also concerned with the >> > various seen.db, mailboxes.db, annotations.db >> > >> > Do I just copy them over and use berkeley utilities to update them? >> >> Looks like you use my rpms on RHEL5 right? Then you may want to first >> update cyrus-imapd on RHEL4 to cyrus-imapd-2.3.14-1. Then start and stop >> cyrus-imapd on RHEL4 and transfer all cyrus data to RHEL5 and start it >> up. >> The RPM handles this by converting all berkeley DB's to skiplist in >> shutdown and converting back as needed on startup. (I think the 2.2.12 >> rpm >> already does this on RHEL4 but I'm not sure so just stop it and check >> the >> db files.) > ---- > yes - yes - yes > > Yes, from CentOS 4 to CentOS 5 > Yes, from CentOS 4 cyrus-imapd package to Simon's package on CentOS 5 > Yes, shut it down, did 'rsync -ar' everything from /var/spool/imap If you happen to run single instance store, make this 'rsync -aH' to preserve the hardlinks. > and /var/lib/imap, /etc/imapd.conf and /etc/cyrus.conf and generated new > certs. > > No - it all failed at startup. Did chown cyrus:mail on both directories That's interesting because I don't think permissions have changed between both packages. Simon > recursively and it started up and seems to be running fine. Did a > 'reconstruct -fr user.*' just to be safe... > > Thanks for the src packages and thanks for the reply but I didn't bother > installing 2.3.x on my RHEL 4 and it doesn't seem to have mattered. I > think I've almost done everything necessary in migrating my server to > where I can shut down the old server now. > > Craig > ---- 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
