Re: Best practice to backup & restore cyrus imap data

Nic Bernstein <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.imap.cyrus
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Apologies for jumping in so late, but why "move" users by copying 
files?  That's not a reliable method in the best of situations, since it 
doesn't move the meta-data, like indexes, etc.  I would suggest the 
Murder approach, or simply use imapsync or some similar tool.
     -nic

On 4/12/24 14:13, J. Roeleveld via Info wrote:
> On Friday, 12 April 2024 14:43:04 CEST denis via Info wrote:
>> Hi J. Roeleveld
>>
>> Thanks for the reply.
>>
>> With regards my second question that is moving a mailbox from one server A
>> to another server B.
>>
>> Let say a user named Alice.surname  has a mailbox with several subfolders on
>> Server A.  What is the procedure to move the mailbox (and all associated
>> subfolder)  of Alice.surname to Server B?  Assume both servers have the
>> same OS and software versions.
>>
>> On legacy cyrus this was very  easy go to
>> /path/to/mailboxes/user/Alice.Surname copy the content to Server B and
>> reconstruct the mailbox on Server B.
>>
>> This is not "possible" with uuid storage.
> Did you try?
>
> But more ontopic, assuming you want to move individual mailboxes to spread the
> load, why not use a murder setup?
>
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