Hi, long-time Cyrus user (25 years, I think), but stumped on this one…
I have an ancient Cyrus 2.5.11 on Solaris 11 installation I am trying to
migrate off. The strategy is to run rolling replication onto the new server
(3.0.8-6+deb10u4 on Debian 10.4), and then point the DNS record at the new
server. With Covid, this has become more protracted than I would like, as I
don’t want to accidentally mess up users who are isolating, so the replication
has been running for some weeks.
The replication structure is old-server -> new-server -> (backup1, backup2)
where backup1 and backup2 are configured as separate channels on new-server.
This has been running seemingly correctly for about three months now.
Today I decided to check all was well by using rsync -an to confirm that the
replicas have everything that is on the master. They do, in that using
rsync -anvO --size-only --exclude='cyrus.*'
root@mail:/var/imap/partition1/user/ /var/imap/partition1/user
where “mail” is the old server shows that there are no messages missing
(—size-only because there’s some time slew in a few places, usually only of a
few seconds, but up to a day in others).
However, reversing it:
rsync -anvO --size-only --exclude='cyrus.*' /var/imap/partition1/user/
root@mail:/var/imap/partition1/user
Shows that there are a _lot_ of files on the replicas which are not on the
master, some of them relating to recent deletions, but some of them seemingly
quite old. I am using:
delete_mode: delayed
expunge_mode: delayed
everywhere, running cyr_expire on the master but not on the replicas. I have
enough bandwidth that sync_reset and re-sync is realistic, but I’d rather not
have to do that immediately prior to a cut-over. These old files are a worry
because if I ever had to reconstruct one of the mailboxes, presumably the
deleted (I think) messages would all reappear. Does anyone have any
suggestions?
Thanks
ian
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