Re: rsync /var/local/imap

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On Wed, 7 Jun 2006, Michael Johnson wrote:

> Hi all
>
> I'm looking for your experiences with combining two cyrus directories.
>
> Currently I have /var/local/imap and /var/local/imap2 on my machine because
> of some legacy stuff from an old machine and limited disk space. I'd like to
> combine the two directories into the /var/local/imap one. I was hoping to
> rsync imap and imap2 together as /var/local/imap and get rid of imap2 if I
> could.
>
> My plan so far:
>
> 1. Stop the IMAP server. (/etc/init.d/cyrus-imapd stop)
> 2. Run rsync /var/local/imap2 /var/local/imap
> 3. Check to see it worked.
> 4. rm -rf /var/local/imap2
> 5. Start the IMAP server. (/etc/init.d/cyrus-imapd start)
>
> Should this work as I want? Is there a better way to do this?

Are these configured as two separate partitions in cyrus? Wouldn't you
need to update the mailboxes.db with each mailbox's new partition as well?

         Andy

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