Moving the Cyrus Mailstore

John Madden jmadden at ivytech.edu
Fri Oct 20 13:48:44 EDT 2006


> 3) Migrating between mail stores
> Create a new mail store under /home and migrate the mail boxes? Not sure how
> or if we can do this.

cp -a.  Or mv.  You choose. :)

You shouldn't have to "down" the server and do any rescue-booting, just
turn off the cyrus and delivery (MTA?) services, move the data, adjust
cyrus' configuration to point to the new mail store, and start
everything back up. 

John




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John Madden
Sr. UNIX Systems Engineer
Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana
jmadden at ivytech.edu



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