[Dovecot] Staged migration from mbox to maildir

Jose Celestino japc at co.sapo.pt
Thu Mar 19 01:43:57 EET 2009


Words by Stewart Dean [Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 02:10:53PM -0400]:
> So much changes in this migration that the ideal way to do it would be to 
> begin with a few users or a department, then migrate the users affinity 
> group by affinity group: first an institute or so, then the faculty, then 
> the staff, then the students, moving to bigger and bigger groupings as the 
> bugs work out of the migration and the move becomes more assured.
>

Tell me about it, we have to plan the migration of 6 million accounts
(many tens of TB) from Maildir to dbox in the near time :)

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