migrating Cyrus IMAPd from i386 to amd64 system

[Jukka Salmi]

Hi,

Gary Smith --> info-cyrus (2010-06-24 17:50:40 -0700):
> YMMV, but here is what I have done in the past.  From the destination,
> I rsync the source to get the bulk of the files over.  Granted, this
> isn't a working copy when you're finished but it will cut down on the
> copy time.  Then I shutdown all of the cyrus services and then do a
> final rsync to get everything else (including the core DB files).
> Just make sure that everything is stopped when you make that final
> copy.
> 
> Then start it up and test...  I believe we did this from i386 to
> x86_64, but I can't remember as most of our mail VM's are on i386
> again (vmware on some good, but non VT enabled hardware).

ok, that's what I'm going to try first, but I'd be really surprised if
didn't see any 32/64-bit problems, especially for the Berkey DBs...


Regards, Jukka

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