migrate from 64 to 32 bits

[Patrick Boutilier]

Simon Matter wrote:
>> 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.


We went from Fedora Core 2 (32 bit) to CentOS 5.2 (64 bit) without any 
issues. Both were running Cyrus 2.3.x.


> 
> Simon
> 
> ----
> Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/
> Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki
> List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html