successfully migrated from 2.0.16 to 2.2 ALPHA

[Ken Murchison]

Ken Woodhams wrote:
> Hi all, I just recently migrated from an old mail server running 
> Cyrus-IMAPD 2.0.16 to a new one with 2.2 ALPHA. Using whatever 
> information I could gather from the mailing list archives and 
> install-upgrade.html I was able to convert the mailboxes.db, 
> seen databases from berkeley to skiplist. After that I just 
> copied over the spool files and directories like so:
> 
> # mv /backup/var/spool/imap/user/<username>/*
> /var/spool/imap/user/<username>/
> # chown -R cyrus:cyrus /var/spool/imap/user/<username>/*
> 
> My only question is that there were a lot of the cyrus.cache, 
> cyrus.header and cyrus.index files from the old server which 
> got copied to the new one. Do I have to perform any operations
> on these files as well? Convert them, remove them all together?


They should be upgraded on the fly.  If not, all you have to do is 
reconstruct the mailboxes.

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