On Fri, 2006-03-03 at 14:14 -0800, Robert Bell wrote: > > > 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 > > Thanks Bob. Actually I hate doing this (mail) because I forget > everything until I have maintenance to do. I've got cyrus+postfix > with Web-cyradm. How can I check the version of the DB? I'll also > need to move all my MySQL databases is that just as easy? > -- Robert, Me too! The benefit, it just works. The curse, you can't remember how to maintain it. I'm not up on postfix or web-cyradm, but the name sounds intriguing. I'm not a big fan of using cyradm. I believe you can glean the DB4 rev with RPM. rpm -q db4 db4-4.3.27-3 FC4 is 4.3, FC3 was 4.2. I can't help with MySQL. Bob...
