Possible issue when upgrading to cyrus 3.0.8 using replication ?

Tue Sep 17 06:25:37 EDT 2019

Thanks ! I'll look into it.

Le lun. 16 sept. 2019 à 18:01, <info-cyrus-request at lists.andrew.cmu.edu> a
écrit :

> Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2019 13:04:31 -0600
> From: Scott Lambert <lambert at lambertfam.org>
> To: info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
> Subject: Re: Possible issue when upgrading to cyrus 3.0.8 using
>         replication ?
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> If you can create the mailboxes on the new server, without replication,
> perhaps it would be safer/less downtime to use IMAPsync to move the data
> to the new server.? It will be slow, but I don't mind slow while the
> source server is still online and users are happy.
>
> On 9/14/19 5:12 PM, Adrien Remillieux wrote:
> > Thank you for your answer !
> >
> > Considering what you said I'll try to enable replication on the new
> > server. If it doesn't work I'll just schedule some downtime, copy the
> > /var/spool/cyrus folder to the new server, install cyrus 3.0.11 from
> > the backports and then upgrade the mailboxes in place.
> >
> > We've been using cyrus since 2004 so there's definitely a lot of old
> > mailboxes around and I don't which versions of cyrus were used.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Adrien
> >
> > Le?dim. 15 sept. 2019 ??00:35, Adrien Remillieux
> > <adrien.remillieux at gmail.com <mailto:adrien.remillieux at gmail.com>> a
> > ?crit?:
> >
> >     Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2019 10:20:17 +1000
> >     From: "ellie timoney" <ellie at fastmail.com <mailto:ellie at fastmail.com
> >>
> >     To: info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
> >     <mailto:info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu>
> >     Subject: Re: Possible issue when upgrading to cyrus 3.0.8 using
> >     ? ? ? ? replication ?
> >     Message-ID: <343a16a2-f5a2-4130-aae0-6a4994ab9556 at www.fastmail.com
> >     <mailto:343a16a2-f5a2-4130-aae0-6a4994ab9556 at www.fastmail.com>>
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> >     Hi Adrien,
> >
> >     The replication upgrade path should be okay. In-place upgrades
> >     (that would use the affected reconstruct to bring mailboxes up to
> >     the same version as the server) would get bitten. Whereas if you
> >     replicate to a newer version server, the mailboxes on the replica
> >     will be created at the replica's preferred version already, so you
> >     don't need to reconstruct afterwards.
> >
> >     If you have messages that would theoretically be affected by this
> >     bug in 3.0, you won't be able to replicate them to 3.0 in the
> >     first place, because I think replication won't allow the 0 modseq.
> >     If this arises, I'm not sure how to recover from it and replicate
> >     the affected messages, since 2.4 and 2.5 won't alter the 0 modseq.
> >     If it can't replicate them, it will complain about it, so if you
> >     plan for the replication needing some handholding/restarting,
> >     you'll at least be able to identify which messages are broken in
> >     the process, and then figure out how to handle it once you know
> >     the size of the problem?
> >
> >     Another option, if you want to stick with the Debian packages,
> >     would be to skip 3.0.8 and install 3.0.11 from buster-backports
> >     (https://packages.debian.org/buster-backports/cyrus-imapd), and
> >     then you'll be immune to the problem. Though you still won't be
> >     able to replicate the affected messages to the new server, hmm.
> >
> >     Cheers,
> >
> >     ellie
> >
> >     On Thu, Sep 12, 2019, at 6:50 AM, Adrien Remillieux wrote:
> >     > Hello,
> >     >
> >     > I have a server that I can't update running cyrus 2.5.10 which
> >     contain mailboxes that have existed from 2.3 and earlier (around
> >     300Gb total). My plan is to update by enabling replication with a
> >     new server running Debian Buster (so cyrus 3.0.8) and then
> >     shutting down the old server. There was a problem when upgrading
> >     to 3.x.x with mailboxes created with cyrus 2.3 or before and that
> >     was fixed in 3.0.11 (see
> >
> https://www.cyrusimap.org/imap/download/release-notes/3.0/x/3.0.11.html
> >     and https://github.com/cyrusimap/cyrus-imapd/issues/2839 for the
> >     bug report)
> >     >
> >     > Does this upgrade path suffer from the same issue ? I am not
> >     familiar with the inner-workings of cyrus. It appears that the
> >     Debian maintainers have not backported the patch in 3.0.8 (see
> >     https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=933163 and I
> >     looked at the source code)
> >     >
> >     > Cheers,
> >     > Adrien
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