Moving the cyrus mail store (var/lib/imap, var/spool/imap)

[Simon Matter]

Joe Hrbek schrieb:
> 
> I was wondering if there is an easy way to move the cyrus mail store to a
> new server.  I tried moving it simply by tarring the /var/lib/imap directory
> and /var/spool/imap but that didn't seem to work.  Of course, I had the mta
> shutoff as well as cyrus-imapd prior to this operation.

Seems absolutely correct to me.

> 
> I installed cyrus-imapd on the new server with the same RPMs I used on the
> current system and then extracted the tar files on the new server in the
> same location they were on the old one.  I started cyrus-imapd and it "check

Maybe stupid question but worth to ask: did you check permissions and
ownership of the directories after extracting?

> pointed" the databases (I'm using simon matters RPMS, 2.1.10 I think).  All
> appears to work, but after about 5 or 6 deliveries by the MTA, the cyrus
> Deliver program begins to hang.  In addition, if I switch to LMTP instead of
> using cyrus deliver (I use postfix as an mta btw), those processes will
> begin to hang just as quickly as the deliver program did.

Did you install the RPMs on the same RedHat release? If not, I
_strongly_ suggest rebuilding the source RPM and then installing the
newly built binaries.

HTH
Simon

> 
> Obviously something isn't right.  I tend to believe that it is because of
> the way I moved the spool and the *.db files.  Could someone tell me, or
> point me to a document that explains how to move a cyrus system to a new
> machine?  I looked through the docs, but I can't seem to find any such
> information.
> 
> Additionally, when will the reconstruct -m command become available again?
> I as able to find one pseudo how-to, not very in-depth, actually just a
> newsgroup article that said, if you have problems with a database, run
> reconstruct -m and it should fix everything.
> 
> Any help would be appreciated,
> 
> -Joe