Questions around moving from 2.2.12 to 2.4.12

[Patrick Boutilier]

On 02/29/2012 01:25 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
> Am 29.02.2012 18:06, schrieb Adam Tauno Williams:
>
>> "netstat --listen --tcp --numeric --program"
>>
>> Somewhere along the line some distributions changed the SIEVE port.
>
> Solved already, thanks.
> missing pam.d entry.
>
>>
>>> imaps[18096]: IOERROR: opening /var/imap/user_deny.db: No such file
>>> or directory
>>>
>>> Important?
>>
>> No.
>
> Solved. Touched file as mentioned in old posting here.
>
>>> Right now old/productive and new/test server drift apart. May I
>>> just rsync over the mailboxes changes when I want to switch?
>>
>> Stop the new server Rsync from the old server Start the new server
>> Make sure everything is working on new server Stop the new server.
>> Stop the old server. Rsync again. Start the new server.
>>
>> You need to perform the last rsync from a cold server. But it should
>> be pretty quick as it will only grab the few changed items.
>
> Wouldn't that mean that I overwrite stuff with older files?



rsync will only sync over newer files and files that have changed. I 
would use --delete as you don't want mails that have been deleted on the 
live server to remain on the new server.



>
> rsync -av  .... without "--delete", correct?
>
> And I would have to convert the deliver.db once more, correct?


Or just ignore it and let Cyrus create a new one when it starts.






>
> I will retest that later as I saw a minor issue with some index-file.
> Overall it looks very promising right now.
>
> Thanks to all of you for your support (so far) ;-)
>
> Stefan
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