reconstruct while system is running?

[Michael Loftis]

--On July 25, 2006 3:37:43 PM +0200 "Heiling, Steffen" <cyr-l at maxshell.de> 
wrote:

> Dear List,
>
> I'm just wondering if I can run "reconstruct -r" for all mailboxes  while
> the system is running with mid load? I want to switch all  mailboxes to a
> new server with more space and without a big downtime.
> I would do a sync (with replication) and after that, reroute  connections
> with iptabels to the new server and start a reconstruct on  it. Is it ok
> when users doing their imap-stuff while it's running? I  don't want to
> stop the server because a complete reconstruct takes  about 2 hours.
>
> Ah, and one second (stupid) question: ATM I'm running replication
> without UUID's. When I want to active it, I have to set the number on
> the production server to (e.g.) 1 and on the backup server to 2? In  the
> docs it's not clear where to set the value (backend or replica).


I'm not sure if your entire plan is safe, however, reconstruct is safe.  An 
individual mailbox or folder just gets locked during the actual 
reconstruct.  Note that it'll increase your I/O load by a pretty large 
amount during the reconstruct.