Moving Cyrus from one server to another

[Dick Davies]

* Frank Reta <frank at lag.net> [1120 10:20]:
> Hey all:
> After scouring the archives I couldn't find an answer to this particular 
> question:
> 
> I've cyrus imap running beautifully on a RH 8.0 box right now but I'm in a 
> situation where I need to move the operation onto another RH8.0 box.  I've 
> built out the cyrus/postfix structure on the new box but can't seem to get 
> cyrus up and running on the new box with the old server 
> databases/mailstores.

When I tested this recently (cyrus 2.0.17 on netbsd -> 2.2.8 on freebsd)
I had to rebuild the databases (since 2.0 used db3).

Something like

/usr/pkg/cyrus/bin/ctl_mboxlist -d > boxes
then scp that over and

/usr/local/cyrus/bin/ctl_mboxlist -u < boxes

(presumably this should work for your other db files too)

also if you want to avoid all messages being seen as new, run (on the new box)

find /var/imap/user -name \*.seen -exec /usr/cyrus/bin/cvt_cyrusdb \{\} flat \{\}.new skiplist \; -exec mv \{\}.new \{\} \;

more info at :

http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/download/imapd/install-upgrade.html

> file: /var/imap/db/log.0000000017: unsupported log version 7
> Nov 22 01:52:36 lumbergh ctl_cyrusdb[2009]: DBERROR db4: Invalid log file: 
> log.0000000017: Invalid argument
> Nov 22 01:52:36 lumbergh ctl_cyrusdb[2009]: DBERROR db4: PANIC: Invalid 
> argument
> Nov 22 01:52:36 lumbergh ctl_cyrusdb[2009]: DBERROR: critical database 
> situation
> Nov 22 01:52:36 lumbergh master[2003]: process 2009 exited, status 75
> Nov 22 01:52:36 lumbergh master[2003]: ready for work
> Nov 22 01:52:36 lumbergh tls_prune[2015]: DBERROR db4: region error 
> detected; run recovery.
> Nov 22 01:52:36 lumbergh tls_prune[2015]: DBERROR: dbenv->open 

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