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
