Thanks Michael, thought it would be something like that but it's nice to be
sure :)
Luv,
D.
Dan Makovec
Fat Canary Software
ICQ: 1398090
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
----- Original Message -----
From: Michael Salmon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, December 23, 2000 9:45 PM
Subject: Re: Migrating Cyrus across platforms
> +-- On Saturday, December 23, 2000 14:05:23 +1030 Dan Makovec
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> | Hi all,
> |
> | I was wondering how easy it is to migrate Cyrus folders from one
platform
> | to another without having to copy all the folders via IMAP.
> |
> | I currently have a FreeBSD system running Cyrus 2.0.7 hooked up to
> | Sendmail 8.11.0 and running with Sieve, and it works very nicely. Due
to
> | circumstances beyond my control, the box is to be decomissioned and
> | replaced with a Linux server. I'd like to set up a clean install of
> | 2.0.9 on the box, then move everything from the existing system onto the
> | new one. Could somebody give me some tips as to how this can be done,
or
> | point out some documentation I can read on it?
> |
> | Is it as simple as tarring up /var/spool/imap and /usr/local/etc/imap
and
> | dropping them onto the new server?
>
> I recently moved servers and it is basically as simple as that. You will
> need to fix your mail delivery as well. Basically you need to copy
> everything that is Cyrus related and then modify the appropriate files. I
> used rsync because I didn't want a long downtime but tar will work just as
> well. Just remember to turn off mail delivery and imapd before you start
> taring.
>
>
> /Michael
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