Migrating Cyrus Servers

[Bron Gondwana]

On Tue, Jan 17, 2012, at 01:54 PM, Dominique Couot wrote:
> 
> On 17/01/2012 13:37, Bron Gondwana wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 17, 2012, at 12:57 PM, Dominique Couot wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I am in the process of changing hardware, and want to migrate all my
> >> processes from one server to another. Most of it went ok, till I hit a
> >> wall with Cyrus.
> >>
> >> The old server was running under Ubuntu 10.04, the new one Ubuntu 11.04,
> >> with their respective Postfix and Cyrus versions.
> >>
> >> I reinstalled Postix, Cyrus and SASL, amavasd and other protection
> >> goodies from the ubuntu repository. I copied my different config files
> >> from the old server to the new one, as well as the entire mail archive
> >> (/var/spool/cyrus/...).
> > Did you copy the metadata files as well?  I'm not sure where they go on
> > Ubuntu by default, but usually /var/lib/imap or similar.
> 
> Just figured that out.... Copied /var/lib/cyrus to the new server, but 
> when trying to connect now, I have no answer anymore to
> cyradm -user cyrus localhost (stays blank - exit through CTRL-C)
> and
> imtest -a user at domain.tld returns "WARNING: no hostname supplied, 
> assuming localhost" (stays blank - exit through CTRL-C)
> 
> So I win some, I lose some. Any more ideas ?

Ownership?  Are they owned by user 'cyrus'?

btw - IRC #cyrus on freenode is usually a good place for slightly faster
chat :)

Bron.
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