Moving Alternate Storage to another disk.

[bOnK]

Okay, thank you.

On 3-1-2019 11:25, Urban Loesch via dovecot wrote:
> Hi,
>
> if you have the new disk installed on the same server you can try:
>
> - mount new disk for example in /mnt/temp
> - rsync -vaWH all files + directories from the old to the new disk
> - stop dovecot so no changes will happen on disks
> - make a final rsync again -> should not take many time
> - umout the old disk
> - mount new disk to the original "alt-storage" path, so you don't have 
> to change each soft-link in each users directory.
> - start dovecot
>
> Not tested, but in theory it should work.
>
> Best
> Urban
>
> Am 31.12.18 um 15:02 schrieb bOnK:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Dovecot 2.3.4_3 on FreeBSD 11.2.
>>
>> I am using mdbox Alternate Storage since about two years without any 
>> problems.
>> However, the disk containing this storage is almost full and I have 
>> to move this data to another disk, probably zpool.
>>
>> Would it be okay to do the following?
>> 1) Shut down dovecot (and mail server) so no new mail comes in.
>> 2) Copy/move all files in ALT location to new disk, using shell 
>> commands like cp/mv/cpdup.
>> 3) Change the path to ALT in dovecot-conf mail_location.
>> 4) Change the 'dbox-alt-root' soft-links in each users main (INBOX) 
>> directory to point to this new location.
>> 5) Start up dovecot and mail server.
>>
>> Am I missing something or maybe there is a better way?
>>