Upgrade from cyrus-imapd2.1.x to cyrus-imapd2.2.3

[Wang Penghui]

Luca Olivetti wrote:

> Wang Penghui wrote:
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>>>> 2. How to backup and restore all the messages and users info store 
>>>> at the mailsystem?
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>>> Search the mailing list, this issue comes up often
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>> I have searched for many times, but i could not got some useful 
>> issues because my ability of STW.
>> Could you pick me a hand?
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> A better suggestion would be to look at the cyrus-wiki
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> http://acs-wiki.andrew.cmu.edu/twiki/bin/view/Cyrus/WebHome
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> Follow the link CyrusAdministration->Backup
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I have found it. Thank you.
Upgrade is almost like Backup and Rstore, is't it?

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>>>> 3. Is there any other things i have to do?
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>>> Look at the install-upgrade.html document (it's in the doc 
>>> subdirectory of the extracted tarball).
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>> I have read the document, but there isn't a entire process of the 
>> operation  of upgrade.
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> These are only things you should take care of when you're upgrading.
> Follow the instructions backwards, i.e. first read the section 
> "Upgrading from 2.1.x or earlier", then "Upgrading from 2.2.0 or 
> earlier" and so on. Of course you don't have to repeat the same steps 
> (i.e. you just have to run masssievec once).
>
Oh, I see.
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