On 19.03.2011 22:24, Bron Gondwana wrote: > On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 05:47:24PM -0300, Reinaldo de Carvalho wrote: >> On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 11:51 AM, Lars Schimmer >> <l.schimmer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> Hi! >>> >>> I try to setup a new cyrus server and want to migrate my old 2.2.x data >>> on the new 2.4.6 server. >>> Any tips on howto migrate data from old server to new server? >>> Rsync and db updates? >>> imapsync, which tool and howto sync the non-user-inboxes? >>> >> >> The main problem is to preserve hardlinks to don't grow up used disk >> space, and isn't possible with IMAP migration. > > Cyrus should be able to handle the upgrade in place if you can shut > down the source server, copy the files over, and bring it back up. Sure, but I got a new hardware and want to use the new hardware ;-) And hardlinks, I guess we do not use much hardlinks at all. HD space is not a big issue for us, as we got roughly 40 account and 20Gb mails on server. But I go and try with rsync with db upgrade, as it once worked fine to upgrade to 2.2.x > Bron. MfG, Lars Schimmer -- ------------------------------------------------------------- TU Graz, Institut für ComputerGraphik & WissensVisualisierung Tel: +43 316 873-5405 E-Mail: l.schimmer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Fax: +43 316 873-5402 PGP-Key-ID: 0x4A9B1723 ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/
