migrating to a different db

[Mark Edwards]

On May 1, 2006, at 8:32 AM, Andrew Morgan wrote:

> On Sun, 30 Apr 2006, Mark Edwards wrote:
>
>> Can someone tell me what the repercussions of rebuilding cyrus  
>> with a different db, say db43 instead of db41, and starting the  
>> new one up with the same data and configuration?  Will it run?   
>> Will there be data corruption of any kind?
>
> The safest and most reliable way to perform that upgrade is to use  
> cvt_cyrusdb to convert your databases to plaintext using the old  
> binaries. Then upgrade the software and use cvt_cyrusdb again to  
> convert back into berkeley DB.

Can I assume that only files with a .db extension are in BDB format,  
or might other files be as well, such as .seen .sub or .index?

Thanks!

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Mark Edwards