On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 09:15:10AM +0000, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Bernhard Reiter <bernhard <at> intevation.de> writes: > > > annotations.db is in the skiplist format. > > Now cvt_cyrusdb seems to fail a simple back and forth conversion test > > to flat and back. How can that be? > > > > cvt_cyrusdb /tmp/annotations.db skiplist /tmp/x flat > > Converting from /tmp/annotations.db (skiplist) to /tmp/x (flat) > > > > Converting from /tmp/x (flat) to /tmp/y (skiplist) > > Warning: apparently empty database converted. > > Did you ever get a reply? We have the same problem here, and we > need to hand-edit the annotations.db due to the folder types for > some shared folders switching from event to mail sometimes… > > Is there another format which can do the round trip? After con- > verting to berkeley the server stopped working because it wanted > to use the berkeley DB from there on instead of its skiplist file > and had recorded that in the /var/lib/cyrus/db/log.0000000117 file… I use cyr_dbtool to edit skiplists - you can dump just some lines and then restore just those lines. Note - it won't handle records or keys with embedded newlines though (you can still set them by passing them as individual command line parameters to "set" - but you can't parse them from a file) Bron. ---- 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
