Migration from imap will grow used space because will ignore single instance store (hard links) and should be avoided. []'s Reinaldo Em 29/02/2012, às 08:48, Manel Gimeno Zaragozá <magiza83@xxxxxxxxxxx> escreveu: > Hello, > > I'm doing almost same migration, from old cyrus (2.2.12) to new version (2.4.13) and I'm using "imapsync" utility in Centos6 to "copy" all data. After some reading and attempts I have a "fast" sync method to copy the data from old server to new one. > > Regards. > > Manel Gimeno Zaragoza > magiza83@xxxxxxxxxxx > > > > Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 11:36:26 +0100 > > From: lists@xxxxxxxx > > To: info-cyrus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Subject: Questions around moving from 2.2.12 to 2.4.12 > > > > > > Hello, cyrus-imap-users (and -devs?), > > > > I subscribed to this list today because I am searching for some > > information around upgrading/migrating my cyrus-imap-server. > > > > Unfortunately I waited very long, hopefully not too long ... > > > > The old server runs Suse Linux 10.1 with these versions: > > > > # rpm -qa | grep cyrus > > cyrus-sasl-2.1.21-3 > > cyrus-sasl-devel-2.1.21-3 > > cyrus-imapd-2.2.12-13 > > > > I have a few hundred accounts within web-cyradm, which means their > > passwords are stored encrypted (so the imapsync-approach is problematic). > > > > My goal is to migrate things over to a newer server running gentoo > > linux, the maintained version of cyrus-imapd there is 2.4.12 (the older > > 2.2.13 from a separate gentoo-overlay didn't compile for me). > > > > Moving the mysql-DB shouldn't be much of a problem, the web-cyradm tool > > runs on gentoo already. > > > > So my question is: how to move things in the most stress-free way? > > > > Could I simply copy over /var/spool/imap etc, and start the newer version? > > > > Do I have to somehow convert things? If yes, is it problematic? > > > > I am thinking about just trying it for a test, but I would really feel > > much better with some competent feedback from the cyrus-imap-community. > > > > Thanks a lot in advance, Stefan. > > ---- > > Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ > > List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/ > ---- > Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ > List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/ ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/
