thanks for the advice gfor the bail out i hadn't the same number of partition in the master and in the replica. then i have another question i have 13 partitions on the master server. can i have only one on the replica or should i have the same number of partition? Le 10/05/2010 18:01, Wesley Craig a écrit : > On 10 May 2010, at 08:31, Eric Doutreleau wrote: >> /usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/sync_client -v -m user.doutrele >> >> i got >> >> MAILBOXES user.doutrele >> Error from do_mailboxes(): bailing out! >> >> the replica server is empty. Should i put him in sync with the master >> bedore starting replications? > > Depending on load, I'd advise pre-sync-ing all of your users & shared > mailboxes prior to starting rolling replication, e.g.: > > sync_client -luv user1 user2 ... > sync_client -lmv shared.mailbox1 shared.mailbox2 ... > > Then start rolling replication. This will prevent rolling replication > from getting so far behind that it thrashes. Mailboxes will still not be > entirely in sync at this point, so insert user and mailbox events into > the rolling replication log: > > cyr_synclog -u user > > Regarding the bail out, take a look at the logs on both the backend and > the replica. > > :wes ---- 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