what is the best way to migrate

[Timo Schoeler]

On Thu, 22 Jun 2006 11:40:46 +0200
Eric Doutreleau <Eric.Doutreleau at int-evry.fr> wrote:

> Well
> 
> we re planning to change our old cyrus imap server to a brand new one 
> and we re wondering what would be the best way to do that.
> 
> our old server is based on a cyrus 2.2.10 and we will migrate to a 2.3.6 
> version.
> 
> we have to copy the mailboxes from an old disks to new ones with a 
> different partition layout
> 
> we move from 26 partiton to 4 partitions.
> 
> we would love to keep the state of messages in our users folders and to 
> minimize the downtine.
> 
> what is the best way to migrate?
> 
> Thanks in advance for any help

http://www.linux-france.org/prj/imapsync/

helped me several times. it's an awesome tool imho ;)

HTH,

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