Migrating from old PPC server to new AMD cyrus

[Zachariah Mully]

On Sat, 2008-02-23 at 18:13 -0800, Adam D wrote:
> I have been looking at what tools to use to migrate all email and boxes
> over to our new server.  Old server is running cyrus 2.2.13.11 PPC and
> the new server is running cyrus 2.2.13.11 AMD64. 
> 
> So far I have been trying to use imapsync but it is giving me all or
> folder only transfers.  There are a lot of shared mailboxes but when I
> used the standard imapsync commands it copies all shared mailboxes into
> the user directory which we can not have.  I managed to use the
> --exclude parm but when I do it only creates the mailboxes on the
> destination.
> 
> Here is a sample what I am doing:
> imapsync --syncacls --exclude 'shared1|shared2l' --host1 localhost
> --user1 user1 --passfile1 file1 --host2 host2 --user2 user2 --passfile2
> file2
> 
> Are there cyrus commands to migrate the files over to another server? 
> Am I going about this the right way?

I don't know if the database files would be compatible between
architectures, but couldn't you simply rsync the entire store between
the servers, then run reconstruct on the new server?

Z