migration, esp of .squat files

Ross Boylan ross at biostat.ucsf.edu
Wed Aug 12 17:48:04 EDT 2009


Also, I'm not sure about compiled sieve scripts being safe to move, and
I don't know where they are on disk.

On Wed, 2009-08-12 at 14:18 -0700, Ross Boylan wrote:
> Will rsync'ing squat file work, even if I'm going from 32 to 64 bit?
> 
> I understand that BDB files need conversion and I think I know where
> they are.  Could anyone give me a recipe for finding them?  Are there
> any in /var/spool/cyrus (it looks like no)?
> 
> I also understand that those are the only problem areas when shifting
> architectures; in particular skiplist will be OK.  I hope someone will
> correct me if I'm wrong.
> 
> I'm running Cyrus 2.2 on Debian Lenny, going from i386 to amd64
> architecture.
> 
> I think I could also delete and recreate the squat files, but that seems
> a bit more work.
> 
> Also, I saw the recent discussion of imapsync vs rsync.  Mostly, I'm a
> little nervous about some state getting lost if I do the imapsync route.
> 
> Thanks.
> Ross Boylan
> 



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