Upgrade from 1.5.19 to 2.1.9

Gardiner Leverett gdl at merit.edu
Mon Oct 21 16:36:13 EDT 2002


Gardiner Leverett wrote:
> 
> Gardiner Leverett wrote:
> >
> 
> >
> > Here are the steps I followed:
> >
> > 1) Copied the mailboxes flat file, and the user and quota
> > directories from the old server to the new server.
> >
> > 2) Copied the mail into the appropriate directory
> > on the new machine.
> >
> > 3) Ran the "dohash" in the config directory
> > (I had to make a mod in the script because reading the
> > config, it wouldn't find the configdirectory.)
> >
> > 4) Ran the ctl_mboxlist -u < mailboxes and
> > ctl_cyrusdb -c
> >
> > 5) When I log back into cyradm and list the mailboxes,
> > I get no list  of the mailboxes.
> 
> Let me add to this:
> 
> The dohash seems to have worked and created the
> quota and user directories correctly.  Also, there is also
> a mailbox.db file with several backups.  I can list
> a quota on the mailboxes, but when I try to "lm",
> I get the mailbox doesn't exist.
> 


Just so this is posted for future users:

I tried the above steps about three times, and on the
third time, it worked.  Why? No idea.




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