[Dovecot] BestPractice to migrate imap mailbox from one machine to another

[Robert Schetterer]

Am 09.09.2011 17:16, schrieb Giulio Casella:
> This is working for me:
> 
> root at oldserver # dsync -v -D -u $user backup ssh newserver dsync -u $user
> 
> where $user is a username. oldserver and newserver can also have
> different mailbox format (in my case was mbox -> maildir)
> 
> Regards,
> gc

yes, dsync should work too, but never tested it

> 
> -------- Messaggio originale --------
> Oggetto: Re: [Dovecot] BestPractice to migrate imap mailbox from one
> machine to another
> Data: Fri, 09 Sep 2011 15:50:49 +0200
> Mittente: Tobias Hachmer <tobias at hachmer.de>
> A: <dovecot at dovecot.org>
> 
> On Fri, 09 Sep 2011 15:42:57 +0200, Giulio Casella wrote:
>> Have you tried dsync (part of dovecot)? I don't know if it works for
>> migration to a different (major) version of dovecot, but it's a nice
>> tool. And it works also over ssh.
> 
> Yeah, I read the sections in the dovecot v2 wiki, but I don't get how
> to use for migration.
> As far as I understood it's to keep several dovecot server at a unique
> data bank. An well, can I use it between dovecot v1.2 and v2?
> 
> Tobias
> 


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