Migrating from 2.0.x to 2.2

[Jens Dueholm Christensen]

From: Reindl Harald on Friday, September 05, 2014 11:58 AM

>>> I was hoping of rsync'ing all Maildirs from the old machine to the new one (including indexes etc etc) and power up 
>>> Dovecot 2.2.x and see what happens, but is that possible or is there another (and better) way short of installing 2.0.x 
>>> on the new machine, rsync everything and then upgrade to 2.2.x?

> use rsync!

Allright!
I just had to make sure where were no obvious incompatibility issues when changing from an older version of Dovecot..

Sometimes (in other systems) there might be a datastructure or something else thats problematic..

> * stop services on both machines
> * rsync a last time
> * start services on the new machine
> * change IP or DNS

That is exactly the plan..

> well, and since you don't change data on the old one you have a untouched backup there

Regards,
Jens Dueholm Christensen