Hi,
I've seen some questions about migrating from 32 bit to 64 bit. We
migrated last weekend and these are the steps we took.
Old server:
- rsync the cyrus data while cyrus is running
rsync -vaH --delete -e ssh /var/lib/cyrus/ new-server:/var/lib/cyrus
rsync -vaH --delete -e ssh /var/spool/cyrus/ new-server:/var/spool/cyrus
rsync -vaH --delete -e ssh /var/spool/sieve/ new-server:/var/spool/sieve
- shut down cyrus
- repeat rsyncing of the three directories to provide stable
environment and databases. This will be a lot faster than the original
rsync.
- dump /var/lib/cyrus/mailboxes.db to a text file
/usr/sbin/ctl_mboxlist -d > mboxlist.txt
- copy this text file to the new server
New server:
- make sure cyrus is shutdown
- switch to user 'cyrus'
su - cyrus
- remove some of the databases
rm /var/lib/cyrus/db/*
rm /var/lib/cyrus/db.backup1/*
rm /var/lib/cyrus/db.backup2/*
rm /var/lib/cyrus/deliver.db
rm /var/lib/cyrus/tls_sessions.db
rm /var/lib/cyrus/mailboxes.db
- build new mailboxes.db from mboxlist.txt file
/usr/sbin/ctl_mboxlist -u < mboxlist.txt
- check /var/log/mail.err and /var/log/mail.info for any errors
from the above command and the following commands. There should only
be one error about missing timestamp file but it is automatically
created.
- run the following commands and check logs for errors
/usr/sbin/ctl_cyrusdb -r
- the above command will verify mailboxes.db and annotations.db
/usr/sbin/tls_prune
- the above command will create a new tls_prune database
/usr/sbin/ctl_cyrusdb -c
/usr/sbin/cyr_expire -E 3
- you can also run the squatter command but it doesn't really need
to run until it's scheduled time. It takes a awhile to run.
- start cyrus and check that it is working correctly.
- you will need to reset any annotations (e.g.: expire) on
mailboxes/folders. We didn't have any annotations set on mailboxes so
I didn't try migrating that database.
The database types are defined in /etc/imapd.conf. They don't appear
in the default Lenny conf file since they use the predefined default
types. The man page for imapd.conf lists those defaults:
annotation_db: skiplist, duplicate_db: berkeley-nosync... The current
database types are listed in /usr/lib/cyrus/cyrus-db-types.active.
We had to take the server off-line to migrate some other applications
on the server so I didn't use imapsync. We are using imapsync to
migrate from Lotus Notes to cyrus.
Bill C.
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