[Web-cyradm] Moving to another server

[Leon Kolchinsky]

> Hi Sruart and thanks for your valuable info.
> So far I have managed to reconstruct almost everything except for the
> actual emails that are stored on the old server. Odd think I noticed
> that in the old server the mail directory had a structure of /mail/ a


You can simply copy both /var/spool/imap and /var/lib/imap to the new
machine if you are trying to migrate everything.

One way to do this to minimize downtime if you have a lot of data is to make
a live copy while the old server is still running in advance of the
switchover. Then take Cyrus down on the old server and rsync the directories
on the new server to the old one. Since most of the data will already be
there unchanged, rsync will only have to move the difference. Depending on
your network and amount of data, this can be much faster.


Regards,
Leon Kolchinsky