migrate from 64 to 32 bits

[Simon Matter]

>
> On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 10:34 +0100, s.dewal at computel.nl wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> A customer of outs wishes to migrate cyrus and postfix from a 64 bits to
>> a
>> 32 bits server. Normally I just copy yhe configuration files and several
>> directories ( /var/lib/imap and /var/spool/imap) but the question is,
>> are
>> the file compatible in a 32 bits environment when copied from a 64 bits
>> environment?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
> How strange , I had a problem doing right the opposite. ( from 32 to
> 64 )
>
> We migrated the mailboxes , from 32 bit to 64 bit ,  and all the seen
> flags got messed up. I had to run imapsync to get all the seen flags set
> up

Interesting. Did you have the same version of Cyrus-IMAPd on both servers?
I recently did a migration of 2.3.13 from RHEL3/i386 to RHEL5/x86_64
without any such issues. So, I'm really wondering why it sometimes works
and for others it does not.

Simon