On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 21:40 -0800, Robert Bell wrote:
> I'm building a new server and I want to move cyrus to the new box.
> Whats the best way to do this. Some down time is ok but I have to keep
> all the mail and configuration. Can I just copy everything over?
> --
> Robert Bell
Robert,
I just went through this last Saturday. It's still somewhat fresh in
the old mind.
For my home IMAP server I did the following. I use saslauthd and mech
PLAIN. Your auth method may require more.
Backup:
/etc/imapd.conf
/etc/cyrus.conf
/var/lib/imap
/var/spool/imap
/etc/mail
If the new box is running a different version of DB then you will need
to convert the old database info to the new format. See:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=160317
for details of the conversion (specifically Comment #7).
Make sure cyrus-imapd, saslauthd and sendmail are not running before
restoring the above files. Start those services when the restore is
complete.
Bob...
