Re: Migrating Cyrus-IMAP to another machine

2006-07-06 Thread Fabio Corazza
David S. Madole wrote: > My limited experience is that you can simply copy both /var/spool/imap > and /var/lib/imap to the new machine if you are trying to migrate > everything. > > One way to do this to minimize downtime if you have a lot of data is to > make a live copy while the old server is s

Re: Migrating Cyrus-IMAP to another machine

2006-07-06 Thread David S. Madole
Fabio Corazza wrote: simple question: is there a fancy method to migrate all the Cyrus IMAP mailboxes and databases from a box to a new one? Just hot copying the folder /var/spool/imap from the old box to the new one? And in case, how can I rebuild the databases in /var/lib/imap to sync with th

Migrating Cyrus-IMAP to another machine

2006-07-06 Thread Fabio Corazza
Hi everyone, simple question: is there a fancy method to migrate all the Cyrus IMAP mailboxes and databases from a box to a new one? I'm planning this because the current box is running out of resources (very bad). The old box runs cyrus-imapd-2.2.6-5 and db4-4.1.25-8.1 while new one has cyrus-i