Questions around moving from 2.2.12 to 2.4.12

[Nikos Gatsis]

On 29/2/2012 7:48 ??, Patrick Boutilier wrote:
> On 02/29/2012 01:25 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
>> Am 29.02.2012 18:06, schrieb Adam Tauno Williams:
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>>> "netstat --listen --tcp --numeric --program"
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>>> Somewhere along the line some distributions changed the SIEVE port.
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>> Solved already, thanks.
>> missing pam.d entry.
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>>>> imaps[18096]: IOERROR: opening /var/imap/user_deny.db: No such file
>>>> or directory
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>>>> Important?
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>>> No.
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>> Solved. Touched file as mentioned in old posting here.
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>>>> Right now old/productive and new/test server drift apart. May I
>>>> just rsync over the mailboxes changes when I want to switch?
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>>> 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.
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>>> 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.
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>> Wouldn't that mean that I overwrite stuff with older files?
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> 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.
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>> rsync -av  .... without "--delete", correct?
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>> And I would have to convert the deliver.db once more, correct?
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> Or just ignore it and let Cyrus create a new one when it starts.
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>> I will retest that later as I saw a minor issue with some index-file.
>> Overall it looks very promising right now.
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>> Thanks to all of you for your support (so far) ;-)
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>> Stefan
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A good tutorial is here:
http://cynici.wordpress.com/2010/12/06/how-to-migrate-32-bit-cyrus-imapd-mailboxes-to-64-bit/
I test it and my new mailserver works fine after 10 min of migration.
Nikos

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