Upgrading 2.2.3 and 2.2.12 -> 2.3.1

[Simon Matter]

> Hello, info-cyrus!
>
> This weekend, I'm planning to upgrade 2 Cyrus imapd servers.
>
> One (technically a migration) is running imapd 2.2.3 (BerkeleyDB 4.2.52)
> on SuSE 9 and will be copied from a ReiserFS partition to ext2fs then to
> UFS2 on FreeBSD 6.0.
>
> The other is running 2.2.12 (BerkeleyDB 4.3.29) on FreeBSD 6.0 and the
> store will not be moved (FreeBSD 6.0).
>
> In either case, the target imapd version is 2.3.1, and we plan to simply
> copy the configuration (/var/imap) and partitions (/var/spool/imap)
> into place and "switch it on."
>
> So far, I only see one problem with this approach: the fact that the
> 2.2.3 server is using BerkeleyDB 4.2.52 and the target is using 4.3.29.
> So my first question is, how should I handle this?  Which databases will
> need to be converted, how should I go about doing it, and which (if any)
> can be skipped?

The easiest thing would be to convert those BDB files to skiplist. Then,
on the target host, you can convert them back to BDB if you really want to
use BDB.

Simon

>
> I've read through the changes since version 2.2.3, and I don't see
> anything else that would affect us outright.  However, my second
> question is, do any of you know otherwise?  Have there been any changes
> to data structures or anything similar that could affect us?
>
> It is imperative that I make this happen as smoothly as possible, as we
> don't have a lot of time to spend on this this weekend, so any advice or
> assistance any of you could offer would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks!
>
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