Re: Cyrus migration
On 8 mrt 2009, at 09:29, Rod James Bio wrote:
Does someone know how to migrate cyrus setting? I've been trying to
migrate my old cyrus settings to my new mail server. What I did was
use rsync to copy the contents of /var/lib/cyrus and /var/spool/
cyrus to my new server. After that I logged in onto cyradm and
executed lm and there was no output.
In my experience the easiest method is to simply do a clean install of
cyrus on the new system and configure it like the old one including
setting up the correct users/mailboxes. Then, with both servers
running, copy the old mail over using IMAP, either using both the old
and new accounts on your mail client (if you've only got a few
mailboxes) or using imapcopy [1].
Another method I haven't tried myself yet is dumping the mailboxes to
file:
# su - cyrus -c "ctl_mboxlist -d" > /var/lib/cyrus/mailboxlist.txt
And restore it with:
# su - cyrus -c "ctl_mboxlist -u" < /var/lib/cyrus/mailboxlist.txt
After that you might not get all the 'seen' and quota settings back. I
haven't got the solution to that in my notes, so there google or the
cyrus mailing list archives are your friends.
Good luck,
Peter
[1] (http://home.arcor.de/armin.diehl/imapcopy/imapcopy.html)
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