Hi Ken, all,
Thanks for that, sounds simple enough! I wasn't sure whether I needed to
reconstruct the mailboxes or not first. Plus I'd forgotten the sieve
directory :)
Cheerio,
d.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ken Murchison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Dan Makovec" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 10:31 PM
Subject: Re: Moving accounts from one cyrus server to another
>
>
> > Dan Makovec wrote:
> >
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > I've got an old FreeBSD 3.x server running cyrus 2.0.7, which I want
> > to decommission. I've set up a new box with FreeBSD 4.3 and Cyrus
> > 2.0.15, and would like to essentially shift all the user accounts
> > (sieve scripts and all - not stored in user directories) to the new
> > server. Passwords aren't a problem, being handled by LDAP. Can
> > anybody tell me how I can do this easily, or point me to the relevent
> > documentation?
>
> You should just have to copy /var/spool/imap, /var/imap and /usr/sieve
> (or whatever you've called them) into the appropriate locations on the
> new server. Reconstructing the mailboxes *may* be necessary, but I
> doubt it.
>
> Caveats:
>
> You'll probably want to copy the data in a fashion that makes copies of
> files which are hard-links (singleinstancestore, sieve?), otherwise
> these links will be broken as the inodes are sure to change.
>
> Ken
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