Re: Moving the Cyrus Mailstore

2006-10-23 Thread Scott Adkins
Another option is to get the physical partition created and setup and then create a "cyrus partition" on that and migrate the users to it via the server itself, as opposed to doing it physically. The moves are transparent and does not require you to down the server. Here are a couple of suggesti

Re: Moving the Cyrus Mailstore

2006-10-20 Thread Andrew Morgan
On Fri, 20 Oct 2006, Wickham, Larry wrote: Hi, Our server is suffering from impending doom, while servicing 11,500 users. Our mail store is in the default location under /var/spool/imap. The partition that / (/var is under here in our setup) is mounted on is 25 GB and I would like to move it to

Re: Moving the Cyrus Mailstore

2006-10-20 Thread John Madden
> 3) Migrating between mail stores > Create a new mail store under /home and migrate the mail boxes? Not sure how > or if we can do this. cp -a. Or mv. You choose. :) You shouldn't have to "down" the server and do any rescue-booting, just turn off the cyrus and delivery (MTA?) services, move th

Moving the Cyrus Mailstore

2006-10-20 Thread Wickham, Larry
Hi, Our server is suffering from impending doom, while servicing 11,500 users. Our mail store is in the default location under /var/spool/imap. The partition that / (/var is under here in our setup) is mounted on is 25 GB and I would like to move it to the partition where /home is mounted which ha