rsync /var/local/imap

Andrew Morgan morgan at orst.edu
Wed Jun 7 16:26:38 EDT 2006


On Wed, 7 Jun 2006, Michael Johnson 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?

Are these configured as two separate partitions in cyrus?  Wouldn't you 
need to update the mailboxes.db with each mailbox's new partition as well?

 	Andy


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