Migrating from old PPC server to new AMD cyrus

[Simon Matter]

> 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?

Doesn't skiplist have the same on disk format? If yes you could convert
all DB to skiplist on the old server and then simply move everything over
to the new box.

Simon