Re: what is the best way to migrate

2006-06-26 Thread Mike Cathey
On Thu, 2006-06-22 at 20:53 +0200, Rudy Gevaert wrote: For no downtime we would kick of the sync in advance, and after some time we would have an almost identical copy. Then let the users connect to the new server(s) and let lmtp deliver to the new server(s). Then do a last sync to get

what is the best way to migrate

2006-06-22 Thread Eric Doutreleau
with a different partition layout we move from 26 partiton to 4 partitions. we would love to keep the state of messages in our users folders and to minimize the downtine. what is the best way to migrate? Thanks in advance for any help Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ

Re: what is the best way to migrate

2006-06-22 Thread Timo Schoeler
version. we have to copy the mailboxes from an old disks to new ones with a different partition layout we move from 26 partiton to 4 partitions. we would love to keep the state of messages in our users folders and to minimize the downtine. what is the best way to migrate? Thanks

Re: what is the best way to migrate

2006-06-22 Thread Andrzej Kwiatkowski
is the best way to migrate? Thanks in advance for any help http://www.linux-france.org/prj/imapsync/ helped me several times. it's an awesome tool imho ;) HTH, Hi. Now i'm using imapsync to migrate over 40k accounts.. I'ts quite good tool ;-) greets AK Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu

Re: what is the best way to migrate

2006-06-22 Thread Rudy Gevaert
Timo Schoeler wrote: http://www.linux-france.org/prj/imapsync/ helped me several times. it's an awesome tool imho ;) I'm still looking for a way to do the sync without knowing the password of the user. Any idea's? Rudy -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --

Re: what is the best way to migrate

2006-06-22 Thread Jared Watkins
Rudy Gevaert wrote: Timo Schoeler wrote: http://www.linux-france.org/prj/imapsync/ helped me several times. it's an awesome tool imho ;) I'm still looking for a way to do the sync without knowing the password of the user. Any idea's? I've used a dummy ldap backend with a copy of all our

Re: what is the best way to migrate

2006-06-22 Thread Patrick T. Tsang
a complete cyrus migration tool with the help of reconstruct and imapsync. Patrick - Original Message - From: Rudy Gevaert [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: cyrus Mailing List info-cyrus@lists.andrew.cmu.edu Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2006 10:12 PM Subject: Re: what is the best way to migrate Timo

Re: what is the best way to migrate

2006-06-22 Thread melson
I'm still looking for a way to do the sync without knowing the password of the user. Any idea's? Rudy I modified imapsync and the Mail::IMAPClient it uses module slightly to let myself do exactly this a few months ago. Basically, I messed with IMAPClient to add in PLAIN authentication as

Re: what is the best way to migrate

2006-06-22 Thread Rudy Gevaert
Patrick T. Tsang wrote: Running imapsync in auth mode. you should enable the IMAPS (port 993) for this. I use ssh to pipe the mail tar to the target server, extract the tar file on the user folder, run reconstruct, and finally use imapsync to subscribe the imap folders and recreate the mail

Re: what is the best way to migrate

2006-06-22 Thread Rudy Gevaert
Jared Watkins wrote: I'm still looking for a way to do the sync without knowing the password of the user. Any idea's? I've used a dummy ldap backend with a copy of all our accounts.. but with the same known password. You are down during the migration.. but it's fairly easy to setup and

Re: what is the best way to migrate

2006-06-22 Thread Kjetil Torgrim Homme
On Thu, 2006-06-22 at 20:53 +0200, Rudy Gevaert wrote: I had a look at the FAQ of imapsync and it seems that I can authenticate as the admin user, but authorize as a normal user. I hope that works! It would be great! yes, it works. For no downtime we would kick of the sync in advance, and