Hello, I'm doing almost same migration, from old cyrus (2.2.12) to new version (2.4.13) and I'm using "imapsync" utility in Centos6 to "copy" all data. After some reading and attempts I have a "fast" sync method to copy the data from old server to new one.
Regards. Manel Gimeno Zaragoza magiz...@hotmail.com > Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 11:36:26 +0100 > From: li...@xunil.at > To: info-cyrus@lists.andrew.cmu.edu > Subject: Questions around moving from 2.2.12 to 2.4.12 > > > Hello, cyrus-imap-users (and -devs?), > > I subscribed to this list today because I am searching for some > information around upgrading/migrating my cyrus-imap-server. > > Unfortunately I waited very long, hopefully not too long ... > > The old server runs Suse Linux 10.1 with these versions: > > # rpm -qa | grep cyrus > cyrus-sasl-2.1.21-3 > cyrus-sasl-devel-2.1.21-3 > cyrus-imapd-2.2.12-13 > > I have a few hundred accounts within web-cyradm, which means their > passwords are stored encrypted (so the imapsync-approach is problematic). > > My goal is to migrate things over to a newer server running gentoo > linux, the maintained version of cyrus-imapd there is 2.4.12 (the older > 2.2.13 from a separate gentoo-overlay didn't compile for me). > > Moving the mysql-DB shouldn't be much of a problem, the web-cyradm tool > runs on gentoo already. > > So my question is: how to move things in the most stress-free way? > > Could I simply copy over /var/spool/imap etc, and start the newer version? > > Do I have to somehow convert things? If yes, is it problematic? > > I am thinking about just trying it for a test, but I would really feel > much better with some competent feedback from the cyrus-imap-community. > > Thanks a lot in advance, Stefan. > ---- > Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ > List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/
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