Upgrade from 2.1.x or 2.2.x to 2.3

[Patrick Boutilier]

On 05/05/2010 11:36 PM, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
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> On 06/05/2010, at 1:12 AM, ml ml wrote:
>> 1.) stop my cyrus damon
>> 2.)  copy the mailboxed into my new cyrus installation
>> 3.) and run cvt_cyrusdb für all *.db files.
>> 4.) Start my new 2.3.x cyrus daemon
>>
>> Is this correct?
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> I believe you need to run reconstruct too.
> (I did when I upgraded, however I did not try not running it).

I am pretty sure it depends on what format the databases are in. I use 
skiplist for most and didn't have to run either cvt_cyrusdb or 
reconstruct when upgrading from 2.2 to 2.3




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> Also I had a corrupt flat seen DB which the converter choked on so I had to edit it by hand to remove the damage and then it worked OK. So check the new DB size vs the old one (they should be of similar size).
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