how to convert db4 mailboxes.db to db3 ?

[Patrick Morris]

Even if it's db4, you need to pass "db3" as the database type parameter:

# ./cvt_cyrusdb mailboxes.db db3 mailboxes.skiplist skiplist



sandra wrote:

>Patrick,
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>
>   I have tried to do the conversion from db4 to skiplist for the
>cyrus-imap
>compiled with db4, but, there is a error message:
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># ./cvt_cyrusdb mailboxes.db db4 mailboxes.skiplist skilist
>fatal error: unknown old backend
>Why doesnt it recognize db4? I have to compile with some other parameter,
>like
>--with-mboxlist-db=db4 ?
>
>Thanks
>
>Sandra
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>Patrick Morris wrote:
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>>I'd assume this is because you're moving from a system that uses db4 to
>>one using db3.  If that's the case, the easiest thing to do is to
>>convert them on the first system to a format both recognize (such as
>>skiplist).  Then, convert the skiplist version back to db3 on the other
>>system.
>>
>>sandra wrote:
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>>>I want to know how I can convert the files .db cyrus uses to db3!
>>>
>>>Thanks a lot.
>>>
>>>SAndra
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