Questions around moving from 2.2.12 to 2.4.12

[Reinaldo de Carvalho]

Migration from imap will grow used space because will ignore single instance store (hard links) and should be avoided.

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Reinaldo


Em 29/02/2012, às 08:48, Manel Gimeno Zaragozá <magiza83 at hotmail.com> escreveu:

> Hello,
> 
> I'm doing almost same migration, from old cyrus (2.2.12) to new version (2.4.13) and I'm using "imapsync" utility in Centos6 to "copy" all data. After some reading and attempts I have a "fast" sync method to copy the data from old server to new one.
> 
> Regards.
> 
> Manel Gimeno Zaragoza
> magiza83 at hotmail.com
> 
> 
> > Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 11:36:26 +0100
> > From: lists at xunil.at
> > To: info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
> > Subject: Questions around moving from 2.2.12 to 2.4.12
> > 
> > 
> > Hello, cyrus-imap-users (and -devs?),
> > 
> > I subscribed to this list today because I am searching for some
> > information around upgrading/migrating my cyrus-imap-server.
> > 
> > Unfortunately I waited very long, hopefully not too long ...
> > 
> > The old server runs Suse Linux 10.1 with these versions:
> > 
> > # rpm -qa | grep cyrus
> > cyrus-sasl-2.1.21-3
> > cyrus-sasl-devel-2.1.21-3
> > cyrus-imapd-2.2.12-13
> > 
> > I have a few hundred accounts within web-cyradm, which means their
> > passwords are stored encrypted (so the imapsync-approach is problematic).
> > 
> > My goal is to migrate things over to a newer server running gentoo
> > linux, the maintained version of cyrus-imapd there is 2.4.12 (the older
> > 2.2.13 from a separate gentoo-overlay didn't compile for me).
> > 
> > Moving the mysql-DB shouldn't be much of a problem, the web-cyradm tool
> > runs on gentoo already.
> > 
> > So my question is: how to move things in the most stress-free way?
> > 
> > Could I simply copy over /var/spool/imap etc, and start the newer version?
> > 
> > Do I have to somehow convert things? If yes, is it problematic?
> > 
> > I am thinking about just trying it for a test, but I would really feel
> > much better with some competent feedback from the cyrus-imap-community.
> > 
> > Thanks a lot in advance, Stefan.
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