rsync /var/local/imap

[Michael Loftis]

No because you still have quota, mailbox database, seen state information, 
and sieve scripts to worry about.

--On June 7, 2006 3:28:07 PM -0400 Michael Johnson <kaiser at emjay.net> wrote:

> Hi all
>
> I'm looking for your experiences with combining two cyrus directories.
>
> Currently I have /var/local/imap and /var/local/imap2 on my machine
> because of some legacy stuff from an old machine and limited disk  space.
> I'd like to combine the two directories into the /var/local/ imap one.  I
> was hoping to rsync imap and imap2 together as /var/ local/imap and get
> rid of imap2 if I could.
>
> My plan so far:
>
> 1.  Stop the IMAP server.  (/etc/init.d/cyrus-imapd stop)
> 2.  Run rsync /var/local/imap2 /var/local/imap
> 3.  Check to see it worked.
> 4.  rm -rf /var/local/imap2
> 5.  Start the IMAP server.  (/etc/init.d/cyrus-imapd start)
>
> Should this work as I want?  Is there a better way to do this?
>
> -Michael
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