Restoring Mailboxes

[Andrew Morgan]

On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, Dr. Harry Knitter wrote:

> Am Donnerstag, 20. April 2006 18:31 schrieb Andrew Morgan:
>> On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, Dr. Harry Knitter wrote:
>>> Could you please give me a hint what you mean with configdirectory?
>>> In my case (SuSE 10.0 as well as 9.2) I found a subdirectory db
>>> in /var/lib/imap the directory where the database seems to be located.
>>> There is a directory deliverdb with a subdirectory db in the same place.
>>> As having copied the whole directory /var/lib/imap including
>>> subdirectories from the old installation to the new one I cant´t imagine
>>> that these old directories are the cause of a changed Berkeley DB
>>> version.
>>
>> In your /etc/imapd.conf, something like:
>>
>> # Configuration directory
>> configdirectory: /var/spool/cyrus/config
>>
>>
>> The "db" subdirectory under the configdirectory holds some transaction log
>> type stuff.  I've had trouble in the past with changing versions unless I
>> clean out that directory first.
>>
>>  	Andy
>
> I´ll try that. However I can´t believe that this might be the cause. Also the
> directory /var/spool/imap was completely transferred to the new installation.
> If there were informations concerning dtabase version in this directory these
> informations would tell cyrus the type of the backuped data. So why should
> this not work?

Supposedly you can migrate from one version of BDB to another, but I've 
never had any luck unless I dump to a flatfile on the old system and 
import the flatfile on the new system.  Please don't ask me to explain 
BDB!  :)

 	Andy