J. Roeleveld wrote: > Hi All, > > I have been reading the thread about using "xfer" to migrate to a different > server or to use imapsync instead. > Both methods appear to require some additional work and I would prefer to > simply copy the data across instead of using synchronization tools on live > servers. (It's not a requirement to keep the email accessible during the > transfer) > > I have around 21GB of mail to copy across and was wondering how best to do > this. > The mail server can (and most likely will) be stopped during the transfer. > > Will it be sufficient to simply copy the "/var/imap" and "/var/spool/imap" > folders across? > The contents of "/var/spool/imap" are all the emails and the db-files and such > appear to be in "/var/imap" I've done the copy method several times without loosing any mail. In all cases after stopping the mail services before the copy action. Don't know if its the best/preferred/nicest method but it works for me... Bye, Marco. > > Or will this cause problems and is there a better/recommended method of doing > this? > > Many thanks in advance, > > Joost Roeleveld > ---- > 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 ---- 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
