On Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 11:33:14AM +0100, Jukka Salmi wrote: > Yes, this works, even without dumping and loading. > > I wonder if I really need to run db_checkpoint and db_recover before > removing the log file; for me it seems that's the same like just > removing /var/imap/db/__db.* and /var/imap/db/log.* - isn't it?
db_recover would also check your database to see if everything is right. It doesn't hurt I guess :) Regarding checkpoint, db_checkpoint would make sure that there are no pendind transactions stored in the log files. --- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html